smoke detector

See also: smoke-detector

English

Alternative forms

• smoke-detector

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

a residential ceiling-mounted smoke detector

smoke detector (plural smoke detectors)

1. A device that sounds an alarm when it detects smoke or other evidence of a fire.

   Synonyms: ceiling bird (slang), smoke alarm

Translations

device

• Catalan: detector de fum m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 煙霧探測器 / 烟雾探测器 (yānwù tàncèqì), 煙霧報警器 / 烟雾报警器 (yānwù bàojǐngqì) (smoke alarm), 煙感探頭 / 烟感探头 (yāngǎn tàntóu)

• Danish: røgdetektor c
• Dutch: rookmelder (nl) m
• Esperanto: fumdetektilo
• Estonian: suitsuandur (et)
• Finnish: savunilmaisin (fi), savuhälytin (smoke alarm)
• French: détecteur de fumée (fr) m
• German: Rauchmelder (de) m
• Hungarian: füstjelző (hu)
• Icelandic: reykskynjari m
• Indonesian: pendeteksi asap
• Italian: rivelatore di fumo m
• Japanese: 煙探知機 (けむりたんちき, kemuri-tanchiki)
• Korean: 연기 감지기(煙氣 感知器)
• Lithuanian: dūmų daviklis m
• Malay: alat pengesan asap
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: røykdetektor m, (smoke alarm) røykvarsler m

  Nynorsk: røykdetektor m, (smoke alarm) røykvarslar m

• Polish: wykrywacz dymu m
• Portuguese: detetor de fumaça m (Brazil)
• Russian: дете́ктор ды́ма m (dɛtɛ́ktor dýma), дымова́я сигнализа́ция f (dymovája signalizácija) (smoke alarm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: детектор дима m

  Latin: detektor dima m

• Swedish: brandvarnare (sv) c, rökdetektor (sv) c
• Tagalog: paniktik ng usok
• Turkish: duman dedektörü
• Welsh: larwm mwg (smoke alarm)

Further reading

• smoke detector on Wikipedia.Wikipedia