detector
noun
de·tec·tor
di-ˈtek-tər 
Examples of detector in a Sentence
using metal detectors to improve safety at airports
a motion detector to thwart burglaries
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The chain of events began on August 18, 2025, when LIGO detectors in the US and Virgo in Italy picked up a faint gravitational-wave signal.
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Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 16 Dec. 2025
Perkins found that some of the most popular AI detectors — including Turnitin, GPTZero and Copyleaks — flagged some things as AI that weren't, and vice versa.
—Lee V. Gaines, NPR, 16 Dec. 2025
Deadline screenshotted the picture in question and ran it through Hive’s AI detector.
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LifeTracer is not a universal life detector.
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Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 16 Dec. 2025
Perkins found that some of the most popular AI detectors — including Turnitin, GPTZero and Copyleaks — flagged some things as AI that weren't, and vice versa.
—Lee V. Gaines, NPR, 16 Dec. 2025
Deadline screenshotted the picture in question and ran it through Hive’s AI detector.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 16 Dec. 2025
LifeTracer is not a universal life detector.
—Amirali Aghazadeh, The Conversation, 12 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for detector
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“Detector.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/detector. Accessed 31 Dec. 2025.
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detector
noun
de·tec·tor
di-ˈtek-tər
1
: one that detects or warns
a smoke detector
2
: a device in a radio receiver for changing the high-frequency current of radio waves into current that can vibrate a loudspeaker to reproduce the original sound
Medical Definition
detector
noun
de·tec·tor
di-ˈtek-tər
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