Detecter vs. Detector: What's the Difference?
"Detecter" is an incorrect spelling, while "detector" is the correct term for a device or person that detects or identifies something.
Detecter and Detector Definitions
Detecter
To discover or ascertain the existence, presence, or fact of.
Detector
One that detects, especially a mechanical, electrical, or chemical device that automatically identifies and records or registers a stimulus, such as an environmental change in pressure or temperature, an electric signal, or radiation from a radioactive material.
Detecter
To discern (something hidden or subtle)
Detected a note of sarcasm in the remark.
Detector
A device capable of registering a specific substance or physical phenomenon, and that optionally sounds an alarm or triggers a warning.
Smoke detectors are mandatory in public buildings.
Detecter
To learn something hidden and often improper about
Detected the manager in a lie.
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Detector
An indicator showing the depth of the water in a boiler.
Detecter
(Electronics) To demodulate.
Detector
A galvanometer, usually portable, for indicating the direction of a current.
Detecter
Alternative form of detector
Detector
One who, or that which, detects; a detecter.
A deathbed's detector of the heart.
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Detecter
One who, or that which, detects or brings to light; one who finds out what another attempts to conceal; a detector.
Detector
An indicator showing the depth of the water in a boiler.
Detector
Any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner
Detector
Rectifier that extracts modulation from a radio carrier wave
Detector
Electronic equipment that detects the presence of radio signals or radioactivity
