Nature of Business and Significant Accounting Policies (Details 5)	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2015	Dec. 31, 2014	Dec. 31, 2013
Stock Option Awards
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Fair Value Assumptions, Method Used [Line Items]
Risk-free interest rate	0.20%	1.00%	0.30%
Expected dividend yield	1.40%	1.20%	1.50%
Expected term	4 years 1 month	4 years 5 months	4 years 3 months 12 days
Expected volatility	26.60%	28.70%	33.70%
Market-based restricted stock unit
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Fair Value Assumptions, Method Used [Line Items]
Risk-free interest rate	0.90%		0.30%
Expected dividend yield	0.00%		0.00%
Expected term	4 years 12 days		2 years 2 months 12 days
Market-based restricted stock unit \| FLIR [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Fair Value Assumptions, Method Used [Line Items]
Expected volatility	27.50%		28.80%
Market-based restricted stock unit \| S&P 500 [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Fair Value Assumptions, Method Used [Line Items]
Expected volatility	23.40%		18.10%
Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Fair Value Assumptions, Method Used [Line Items]
Risk-free interest rate	0.40%	0.30%	0.10%
Expected dividend yield	1.50%	1.20%	1.40%
Expected term	6 months	6 months	6 months
Expected volatility	21.50%	23.90%	28.10%

The estimated dividend rate (a percentage of the share price) to be paid (expected dividends) to holders of the underlying shares over the option's term.

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The estimated measure of the percentage by which a share price is expected to fluctuate during a period. Volatility also may be defined as a probability-weighted measure of the dispersion of returns about the mean. The volatility of a share price is the standard deviation of the continuously compounded rates of return on the share over a specified period. That is the same as the standard deviation of the differences in the natural logarithms of the stock prices plus dividends, if any, over the period.

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The risk-free interest rate assumption that is used in valuing an option on its own shares.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Expected term of share-based compensation awards, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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