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motion detectors

motion detectors is the plural of motion detector.

Meaning of motion detector

Noun

motion detector (plural motion detectors)

  1. A device used in security systems that can alert the user of the presence of a moving object.
    • Higman and his sidekick, a geophysical engineering student named Krishna Divakarla from the Colorado School of Mines, are the volunteer cavalry. They are planting homemade motion detectors on the quivering slopes.2026 February 27, Paul Salopek, “Hazard Cascade”, in National Geographic

Questions about motion detectors

What is motion detectors the plural of?
Motion detectors is the plural of motion detector.

Words near motion detectors in the dictionary

  1. motion dazzle
  2. motion design
  3. motion designer
  4. motion designers
  5. motion detector
  6. motion detectors
  7. motion discomfort
  8. motion lotion
  9. motion of confidence
  10. motion of no confidence
  11. motion of someone's ocean

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