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detector van

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.67 in modern English

Syllables
de-tec-tor -van
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A vehicle equipped with electronic instrumentation that can detect the oscillator of a domestic television, used by the licensing authority to check that a household with no TV licence does not have a television receiver

British usage

Usage

Inflected Forms

detector vans (plural)

Synonyms

television detector van TV detector van

Questions

What does detector van mean?
A vehicle equipped with electronic instrumentation that can detect the oscillator of a domestic television, used by the licensing authority to check that a household with no TV licence does not have a television receiver

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