noun. One that detects, especially a mechanical, electrical, or chemical device that automatically identifies and records or registers a stimulus, such as an environmental change in pressure or temperature, an electric signal, or radiation from a radioactive material.

noun. One who or that which detects or brings to light; one who finds out what another attempts to conceal; a revealer; a discoverer.

noun. An instrument or a device for indicating the presence or state of a thing.

noun. Sometimes written detecter.

noun. One who, or that which, detects; a detecter.

noun. undefined

noun. An indicator showing the depth of the water in a boiler.

noun. A galvanometer, usually portable, for indicating the direction of a current.

noun. Any of various devices for detecting the presence of electric waves.

noun. a publication containing a description of genuine and counterfeit bank notes, designed to enable persons to discriminate between them.

noun. See under Lock.

noun. A device capable of registering a specific substance or physical phenomenon.

noun. electronic equipment that detects the presence of radio signals or radioactivity

noun. any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner

noun. rectifier that extracts modulation from a radio carrier wave

"Instead of wave functions we could talk about this; that if a source of a certain kind emits a particle, and a detector is there to receive it, we can give the amplitude that the source will emit and the detector receive."

bank-note detector  electrolytic detector  electrothermal detector  magnetic detector  mechanical detector  

lie detector  smoke detector  

rectifier  

Hector  Rector  Schechter  collector  connecter  

amplifier  antenna  camera  circuit  controller  

calorimeter  chemical detector  clinical thermometer  cryometer  detecter