Thesaurus results for DETECTORS

detectors

noun

plural of detector

as in sensors

a device that detects some physical quantity and responds usually with a transmitted signal a motion detector to thwart burglaries

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Recent Examples of detectors Treat those checks as part of your review process rather than a guarantee that the text will pass other detectors. — Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 21 Oct. 2026 During both, the LIGO and Virgo gravitational-wave detectors were down for maintenance. — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026 Swipe-pay is vulnerable to theft because the magnetic stripe behind cards does a poor job of securing personal information, according to Scott Schober, the CEO of Berkeley Varitronics Systems who has invented several skimming detectors. — Juliana Kim, NPR, 14 Oct. 2026 Another issue is that AI detectors are still not terribly reliable, which Vara addresses in her piece, citing a number of studies to bolster the credentials of Pangram. — James Folta, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2026 Anyone who has seen enough war movies is probably familiar with mine detectors, which are basically a military variant of a hobbyist's metal detector. — New Atlas, 12 Oct. 2026 Neutrinos bump into other particles only rarely, so scientists build large detectors to improve their odds of catching collisions. — Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2026 Gravitational waves are a relatively new area of astronomy, using detectors spread across a wide area, like on a continent or in space, to identify ripples in the fabric of space-time generated by cataclysmic events in the distant cosmos. — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 7 Oct. 2026 Most neutrinos pass invisibly through IceCube, but by chance a few of them will smash into a proton or neutron in the ice, releasing a shower of high-energy electrons, photons and other particles the detectors can see. — Tyce Deyoung, The Conversation, 6 Oct. 2026

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sensors

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The smell of coffee could become part of a virtual catch-up, thanks to an experimental system that connects odor sensors to wearable scent dispensers over the internet.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
The cylindrical base station hub is the brain of the system and provides connectivity for the sensors and add-on components.

— John R. Delaney, PC Magazine, 22 Oct. 2026

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