Definition of Detectors

1. Noun. (plural of detector) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Detectors

1. detector [n] - See also: detector

Lexicographical Neighbors of Detectors

detections
detective
detective agency
detective novel
detective story
detective work
detectivelike
detectives
detectograph
detectographs
detector
detector coil
detector van
detectorist
detectorists
detectors (current term)
detects
detent
detente
detented
detentes
detenting
detention
detention basin
detention camp
detention cell
detention centre
detention centres
detention home
detention homes

Literary usage of Detectors

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sensor Systems for Biological Agent Attacks: Protecting Buildings And by Bmed, National Research Council (U.S.), ebrary, Inc (2005)
"Nonspecific detectors Nonspecific detectors respond to bioaerosol particles ... Two kinds of nonspecific detectors are discussed in this report: standoff ..."

2. Wireless Telegraphy by Jonathan Adolf Wilhelm Zenneck (1915)
"These detectors are sensitive only if the contact is limited to a point. 2. They operate without a battery in series, and when a battery is used the ..."

3. The Principles of Electric Wave Telegraphy and Telephony by John Ambrose Fleming (1916)
"Other Self restoring Contact detectors; The Walter Tantalum Detector. ... References to other Work on Magnetic detectors; Investigations of Walter, Eccles, ..."

4. Experimental Wireless Stations: Their Theory, Design, Construction and by Philip E. Edelman (1922)
"Quite a number of * different types of detectors have been discovered and developed ... Vacuum tube detectors are at present the most sensitive and popular. ..."

5. Practical Wireless Telegraphy: A Complete Text Book for Students of Radio by Elmer Eustice Bucher (1917)
"Perhaps the most highly developed of all receiving detectors are the vacuum tube ... For instance, extremely sensitive amplifying detectors may require ..."

6. Principles of Wireless Telegraphy by George Washington Pierce (1910)
"CHAPTER XVII ON detectors (Continued). — CRYSTAL RECTIFIERS WE come now to a very sensitive and interesting class of detectors for receiving the signals of ..."

7. Measurements for Competitiveness in Electronics (1994)
"Detecting detectors convert the information from each lightwave of a given ... detectors are assembled into packages with their associated electronics to ..."

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