LIE DETECTOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lie detector mean? 

• LIE DETECTOR (noun)
  The noun LIE DETECTOR has 1 sense:

1. a polygraph that records bodily changes sometimes associated with lying

  Familiarity information: LIE DETECTOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIE DETECTOR (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)