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lie detectors

lie detectors is the plural of lie detector.

Meaning of lie detector

Noun

lie detector (plural lie detectors)

  1. (informal) A device designed to detect or indicate when a person is lying by measuring and recording several physiological variables.
    • It is a lie detector; with its aid one can plumb the bottomless pits of a chap's subconscious mind, and fathom all the mysteries of his subliminal ego.1909, Charles Edmonds Walk, The Yellow Circle, page 69

Questions about lie detectors

What is lie detectors the plural of?
Lie detectors is the plural of lie detector.

Words near lie detectors in the dictionary

  1. lie bump
  2. lie bumps
  3. lie by
  4. lie detection
  5. lie detector
  6. lie detectors
  7. lie doggo
  8. lie down
  9. lie down on the job
  10. Lie group
  11. Lie groupoid

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