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heat detector
noun
A device that detects heat and sounds an alarm.
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"Our device is a heat detector measuring the rate of rise in temperature," says Gluckman.
A kitchen fire triggers a heat detector, which sends a signal to a pump under the sink.
The electronic heat detector is the brainchild of several professors at a technical college in the nearby Swiss capital of Bern.
Fortunately, evolution has provided it with one a heat-detector that can sense a fire from a distance of 80km (50 miles).That fact was sufficiently impressive to Helmut Schmitz, of the University of Bonn, in Germany, for him to study the jewel beetle's heat detector with a view to building something similar artificially.
The conductor tested the wheel assembly with a hand-held heat detector called a Tempilstik, but he apparently applied the device to the wrong part of the wheel assembly, officials said last week after a re-enactment of the accident.
Their patent-pending product, Automist, consists of a ceiling-mounted heat detector that triggers a pump under the sink that sends water to a special unit at the base of the kitchen faucet.
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*Fire protection allows you to attach smoke and heat detectors into the burglar alarm circuits.
In the autumn Arkhar will begin hiding heat detectors with satellite links in the refuge's unattended cabins.
Rescuers used their bare hands, with no protective gear or heat detectors, in their search for survivors in what remains of the Dharahara tower.
Already, autonomous sentinels on the ground, in the air and in orbit are probing the battlefield with heat detectors, radar, cameras, microphones and other devices.
The diagram, which was posted on www.Istimata.co.nr by a group calling itself the Brigade Istimata International, showed the location of the ambassador's office, surveillance cameras and heat detectors.
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