'detector' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used to refer to a device that senses or detects something, like a smoke detector or a metal detector. For example, "The security guard ran the bags through a metal detector at the entrance of the stadium."
"Ask to see the gas safety certificate and make sure the property is fitted with a smoke alarm and a carbon monoxide detector".
Forest ranger Russ runs regular, fun and informative expeditions in search of bats - you get your own ultrasonic detector - red and roe deer, and Cropton's more anti-social inhabitants, badgers.
Kaarma shot and killed Dede after being alerted by a motion detector in his garage, which was left partially open with a purse deliberately placed inside.
The horde followed the airport employee upstairs, with journalists running up downward escalators to get ahead, and the invitees were ushered through a service door guarded by police and into a hallway with a metal detector.
This has to be as simple as installing a smoke detector, hanging a fire extinguisher on the wall, talking to your kids about which door to use if the stairs are burning, or even putting a rope ladder in a second-floor window.
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As luck would have it, a project called NOvA, which should start collecting data in the spring of 2013, will send neutrinos through the Earth's crust from Batavia to an underground detector 810km away in Minnesota.
The result, Dr Levis says, is a process that should allow chemical identification within five minutes, with far more reliability than existing systems.The new laser-based detector has attracted interest from America's army and navy, and from the National Science Foundation.
It involved dropping a detector down a shaft within 40 metres of an exploding nuclear bomb, which would act as a source of neutrinos.
The Standard Model, however, predicts them to be massless, so the result is yet another crack in it.Cleveland Potash's Boulby mine, in England, is the site of a cheap but speculative detector of a different kind.
PARTICLE-PHYSICS machines have two parts: an accelerator and a detector.
