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ETD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ETD mean?
• ETD (noun)
The noun ETD has 1 sense:
1. a system for screening luggage in airports; an agent passes a swab around or inside luggage and then runs the swab through a machine that can detect trace amounts of explosives
Familiarity information: ETD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A system for screening luggage in airports; an agent passes a swab around or inside luggage and then runs the swab through a machine that can detect trace amounts of explosives
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
ETD; explosive trace detection
Hypernyms ("ETD" is a kind of...):
system (instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity)
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