“The detective provided indisputable evidence that Thelma was having an affair with the landscape architect who designed a lily pond in their backyard.”
“We were puzzled by your remark that you had the standard and there is no other design, so we did a little detective work.”
“He moved into television production and, after a couple of stinkers, he hit paydirt with a detective show with a difference.”
“This medium-sized telescope has made possible the detection of new moons around Uranus and Neptune.”
“The detection of minute particles in a liquid does not only depend upon their size but also on the relative refractive index of the suspended matter and the liquid.”
“He maintained a home life that involved minimal contact with his family to minimize the detection of his crimes.”
“The technique consists of establishing an invertibility-based fault detectability condition for the diagnostic model.”
“By relying on camouflage, the military resort to the same artifice that enables many prey animals to enhance their chances of survival by minimizing detectability.”
“We also conducted field tests of unattached transmitters to determine how antenna position and submersion in water and mud affected radio detectability and signal strength.”
detector
A device capable of registering a specific substance or physical phenomenon, and that optionally sounds an alarm or triggers a warning.