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detector

[dih-tek-ter] / dɪˈtɛk tər /


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During the 80-minute crossing, while running on LNG, gas detector alarms sounded inside the ship, and crew in the gas tank room reported hearing a strange noise.

From BBC Sep. 8, 2026

The experiment searches for dark matter by watching for characteristic flashes of light created when particles deposit energy inside the detector.

From Science Daily Sep. 4, 2026

All trial watchers are wanded by a metal detector to ensure they’re carrying no other electronics.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

I am sure of it not because I remember writing this thing in fits and starts throughout Saturday, but because an A.I. detector called Pangram blessed these paragraphs with a “100% Human Written” score.

From Slate Aug. 18, 2026

The motion detector emitted a beep as I stepped through the front door.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

And while some safety systems were absent, he said the gas detectors apparently functioned as they should do, triggering an automatic shut down of the fuel supply.

From BBC Sep. 8, 2026

Einstein's theory, meanwhile, treats gravity as a property of space and time itself -- it can bend, flatten, and support waves that travel through it, as gravitational wave detectors have confirmed.

From Science Daily Aug. 30, 2026

Soldiers screened people entering the presidency with metal detectors.

From Barron's Aug. 30, 2026

"We would ask the government to help us with things like metal detectors, which could help us find out whether there are other minerals here, so that our community can develop," he says.

From BBC Aug. 22, 2026

New observations in the next few years, particularly by gravitational wave detectors like LIGO, should enable us to discover the origin of the gamma ray bursts.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking



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