a device that samples the breath of a
a device used by police forces to detect the amount of alcohol in one's breath during traffic stops
a machine that measures the alcohol in your breath to see if you have more than the legal limit of
a portable hand-held device in which you blow, that measures your blood alcohol level
A device that calculates blood alcohol concentration based upon small amounts of alcohol in a person's breath.
A trademark name that has become a generic term for an apparatus that tests a person's blood alcohol level.
most of the breath testing devices using this name have been discontinued (and hence the term), except for the Breathalyzer 7410, manufactured by National Draeger.
A portable machine used by San Diego Law Enforcement personnel to measure the BAC of suspected drunk drivers.
A breathalyzer (or breathalyser) is a device for estimating blood alcohol content (BAC) from a breath sample. "Breathalyzer" is the brand name of a series of models made by one manufacturer of these instruments (originally Smith and Wesson, later it was sold to National Draeger), but has become a genericized trademark for all such instruments. Intoxilyzer, Intoximeter, AlcoHAWK, Alcotest, Alcosensor and Datamaster are the other most common brand names in use today.