Polygraph is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for POLYGRAPH in dictionary:

VERB:
• to copy by polygraph
NOUN:
• an instrument for multiplying copies of a writing
• a lie-detector test carried out with a polygraph
• instrument for recording pulse rate and perspiration, used esp as a lie detector
• An instrument for multiplying copies of a writing; a manifold writer; a copying machine.
• In bibliography, a collection of different works, either by one or several authors.
• An instrument for detecting deceptive statements by a subject, by measuring several physiological states of the subject, such as pulse, heartbeat, and sweating. The instrument records these parameters on a strip of paper while the subject is asked questions designed to elicit emotional responses when the subject tries to deceive the interrogator. Also called lie detector
• a medical instrument that records several physiological processes simultaneously (e.g., pulse rate and blood pressure and respiration and perspiration)
• a machine designed to detect and record changes in physiological characteristics, such as a person's pulse and breathing rates, used especially as a lie detector.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an instrument for recording variations of several different pulsations (as of physiological variables) simultaneously — compare lie detector

Words related to POLYGRAPH

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Words that contain POLYGRAPH

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How to use POLYGRAPH in a sentence

• Hawkins of Frankford, near Philadelphia, has invented a machine, which he calls a polygraph, and which carries two, three, or four pens.
• The sheets which you receive are those of the copying-pen of the polygraph, not of the one with which I have written.
• Dear Sir, I believe that when you left America, the invention of the polygraph had not yet reached Boston.
• I think it the finest invention of the present age, and so much superior to the copying machine, that the latter will never be continued a day by any one who tries the polygraph.
• Peale, tell him I am writing with his polygraph, and shall send him mine the first moment I have leisure enough to pack it.

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