Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

motion detector

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.66 in modern English

Syllables: mo-tion de-tec-tor
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A device used in security systems that can alert the user of the presence of a moving object.

Example Sentences

"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."

Inflected Forms

motion detectors (plural)

Questions

What does motion detector mean?: A device used in security systems that can alert the user of the presence of a moving object.

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