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Definition of Detecters
1. detecter [n] - See also: detecter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Detecters
Literary usage of Detecters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Connecticut Common School Journal by Henry Barnard, Connecticut, Board of Commissioners of Common Schools (1862)
"... in rather a wrathy way, he threatened to punish with six blows of a heavy
ferule the first boy detected in whispering, and appointed some as detecters. ..."
2. World-noted Women by Mary Cowden Clarke (1868)
"j»r tests against the dimmed perceptions of prosaic getters and spend ers ; so
it is with prosy detecters of falsity in antique records; their literal ..."
3. Sound and Music by John Augustine Zahm (1892)
"For this reason, a flame like this, as well as the others which we have been
studying, can be used as detecters of sonorous vibrations whose presence could ..."
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