polygraph

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A device which measures and records several physiological variables such as blood pressure, heart rate, respiration and skin conductivity while a series of questions is being posed to a subject, in an attempt to detect deception.
    — It used to be just a plain office with a chair and some instruments on a table. Then they got the new, fancy polygraph system.
  2. A mechanical instrument for multiplying copies of a writing, resembling multiple pantographs. dated
  3. A collection of different works, either by one or several authors. archaic
  4. A group of letters that represent a single phoneme.
  5. Any group of letters treated as a single item.
    — A polygraph consists of an unspecified number of adjacent letters. A polygraph need not be recognisable as a word in a language but if we are attempting to decipher a message which is expected to be in English and we find the heptagraph MEETING it is much more promising than if we find a heptagraph such as DKRPIGX.
  6. An author who writes on many subjects.
  7. A multidimensional directed graph.
动词 v.
  1. To administer a polygraph test to. transitive
    — The FBI polygraphed the suspect but learned nothing because they already knew he was lying.

词形变化

polygraphs plural polygraphs present,singular,third-person polygraphing participle,present polygraphed participle,past polygraphed past

词汇关系

衍生词
polygrapher polygraphist

词源

词源 1
From poly- + -graph.
词源 2
From poly- + -graph.
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