detection
nounUK, US /dɪˈtɛk.ʃən/ · AU /dɪˈtek.ʃən/
Etymology Learned borrowing from Latin dētēctiōnem. By surface analysis, detect + -ion.
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The act or process of detecting, uncovering, or finding out, the discovery of something new, hidden, or disguised.
- In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- “Why should Eldridge commit murder?[…]There was only one possible motive—namely, he wished to avoid detection as James Selby of Anaconda Ltd.[…]”1931, Francis Beeding, “10/6”, in Death Walks in Eastrepps:
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Obsolete Synonym of accusation, the exposure of concealed information about a crime or heresy.
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Business, Electrical, Electrical engineering, Electricity, Electromagnetism, Energy, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics The act or process of finding or detecting an electrical signal in a carrier wave.
- Synonyms
- demodulation
- Derived terms
25 terms
antidetection, autodetection, biodetection, Canny edge detection, chemodetection, codetection, collision detection, detection comb, detection dog, immunodetection, lie detection, microdetection, misdetection, multidetection, non-detection, nondetection, nuclear hydrogen detection meter, overdetection, photodetection, radiodetection, redetection, serodetection, subdetection, thermodetection, underdetection