detector

Other forms of detector

plural

detectors·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about detector

What does detector mean?

detector means "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". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in detector?

detector has 3 syllables: de-tec-tor. The stress falls on "tec". In IPA it is /dɪˈtɛktɚ/.

What is another word for detector?

Close synonyms include sensor, sensing element, demodulator. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is detector a common word?

detector is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with detector?

1 word rhymes with detector. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.