detectaphone

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a sensitive microphone able to record conversations covertly even through a wall.

   The detective concealed a detectaphone behind the thin wall.

Formed in the early twentieth century from detect + -a- + phone, modeled as the name of an electrical listening device. Detect comes from Latin detegere ("to uncover"); phone comes from Ancient Greek phone ("sound, voice").

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