explosive trace detection

1. 1.

   a system for screening luggage in airports; an agent passes a swab around or inside luggage and then runs the swab through a machine that can detect trace amounts of explosives

   SynonymsETD

   Broadersystem

Questions about explosive trace detection

What does explosive trace detection mean?

explosive trace detection means "a system for screening luggage in airports; an agent passes a swab around or inside luggage and then runs the swab through a machine that can detect trace amounts of explosives".

What is another word for explosive trace detection?

Close synonyms include ETD. 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 explosive trace detection a common word?

explosive trace detection is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.