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lie detector
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lie detector
n.
A polygraph used to detect possible deception during an interrogation.

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
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.lie detectorlie 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
Spanish lie detector ndetector m de mentiras
French lie detector ndétecteur m de mensonges
German lie detector lie nLügendetektor m
Italian lie detector nmacchina della verità

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Polygraphs are truth detectors, not just lie detectors.
WIZARDS OF DETECTION Other researchers, however, present evidence that highly skilled human lie detectors do exist.
There are fingerprint scanners, iris scanners, and even brainwave scanners somewhere in the pipeline, which can be hooked up to sophisticated databases or lie detectors as the case may be.
 
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