Noun: polygraph
| Singular | polygraph |
| Plural | polygraphs |
Sample Sentences
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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. [1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 270:]
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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. [2002, Robert Churchhouse, Codes and Ciphers: Julius Caesar, the Enigma, and the Internet, page 3:]
Nouns inflected like polygraph
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From poly- + -graph.
Verbs referencing "polygraph"
Hungarian Nouns
poligráf, Finnish Nouns
polygrafi.