Definition of Polygraph

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Polygraph

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

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Polygraph Quotations

The U.S. is, so far as I know, the only nation which places such extensive reliance on the polygraph. It has gotten us into a lot of trouble.
Aldrich Ames

The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people.
Aldrich Ames

The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes.
Aldrich Ames

I'm not sure. I did not set it up. I have never done a polygraph test in my life. I didn't know what to expect. I was just there to answer the questions that they put in front of me.
Rafael Palmeiro

After reviewing the polygraph charts in private, the polygraph examiner told me that I had passed and that he believed I had nothing to do with the anthrax letters.
Steven Hatfill

And they asked me to take a polygraph as to the allegations and reports I'd made. I volunteered and I took the polygraph and passed it without a glitch.
Sibel Edmonds

Later, I went down to the Washington field office and an onsite polygraph was administered.
Steven Hatfill

I am not opposed to the limited use of polygraphs in a case where a person is suspected of wrongdoing. But widespread use of the polygraph as a screening tool goes far beyond what is acceptable.
Jeff Bingaman

Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.
Sam Ervin

Polygraph Translations

polygraph in German is Polygraph

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