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Example sentences for: tricorder

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I need a “tricorder”—the convenient, hand-held device featured on Star Trek that can detect life forms even from orbit.
Unfortunately, we don't have a clue how a tricorder might work, since life forms don't seem to have any observable property that distinguishes them from inanimate matter.