detector

detector is a 8-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One who, or that which, detects; a detecter. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. noun. One who, or that which, detects; a detecter.
2. 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

   Synonyms: sensor

3. noun. electronic equipment that detects the presence of radio signals or radioactivity
4. noun. rectifier that extracts modulation from a radio carrier wave

   Synonyms: demodulator

Synonyms

sensor, demodulator

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in detector:

cottered

Common word forms

detectors

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