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LIE DETECTOR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A polygraph that records bodily changes sometimes associated with lying
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("lie detector" is a kind of...):
polygraph (a medical instrument that records several physiological processes simultaneously (e.g., pulse rate and blood pressure and respiration and perspiration))
Meronyms (parts of "lie detector"):
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)
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