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mine detector
noun
- an electromagnetic device for locating buried or concealed land mines.
mine detector
noun
- an instrument designed to detect explosive mines
Derived Forms
- mine detection, noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of mine detector1
Example Sentences
He said he sometimes has to use a stick to probe for mines, advancing slowly when there is so much shrapnel on the ground that using a mine detector is useless.
The team of Ukrainians has been at different sites over the last week learning to use an advanced Japanese mine detector known as the Advanced Landmine Imaging System.
When the U.N. patrol arrived at the site, they had dismounted and begun to advance on foot with a mine detector when the device exploded.
Two large vans and a trailer are being stuffed with rations, flak jackets, helmets, medical packs, drones, even a mine detector.
Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, assembled a device — likened by Peskin to a modern mine detector — to locate the projectile but failed to find it.
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