polygraph Synonyms
Another word for polygraph
• noun (Context 1)
A machine designed to detect and record simultaneous changes in physiological characteristics, such as a person's pulse, blood pressure, and respiration rate, used especially as a lie detector.
"The defense attorney argued that the results from the lie detector were unreliable and inadmissible in court."
• verb (Context 2)
To administer a lie-detector test to a person using a physiological recording machine.
"Federal investigators decided to interrogate the witness to verify the accuracy of his statement."
• noun (Context 3)
An author who writes productively on a wide variety of subjects.
"The seventeenth-century scholar was a celebrated polymath whose treatises spanned theology, astronomy, and music."
• noun (Context 4)
A mechanical device consisting of linked pens used historically for producing simultaneous copies of a handwritten document or drawing.
"Museum visitors admired the brass pantograph that Thomas Jefferson used to duplicate his personal correspondence."