lie detector

lie detector

n.

A polygraph used to detect possible deception during an interrogation.

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lie detector

Noun

Informal a device used to measure any increase in blood pressure, pulse rate, etc., of someone being questioned, which is thought to indicate that the person is lying

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

lie detector - a polygraph that records bodily changes sometimes associated with lying electrical skin response, electrodermal response, Fere phenomenon, galvanic skin response, GSR, psychogalvanic response, Tarchanoff phenomenon - a change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety; can be measured either by recording the electrical resistance of the skin or by recording weak currents generated by the body polygraph - a medical instrument that records several physiological processes simultaneously (e.g., pulse rate and blood pressure and respiration and perspiration)

Translations

lie detector n → detector m de mentiras

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lie detector n → détecteur m de mensonges

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lie detector lie n → Lügendetektor m

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lie detector n → macchina della verità