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8 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
Meaning
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
noun rectifier that extracts modulation from a radio carrier wave
noun electronic equipment that detects the presence of radio signals or radioactivity
originBorrowed from Latin dētēctor. Equals detect + -or (agent noun forming suffix).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Also spells
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- recode 9
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- cotter 8
- tercet 8
- ceder 8
- cered 8
- coder 8
- cored 8
- coted 8
- credo 8
- creed 8