detection

See also: détection

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dəˈtɛkʃən/
  • Rhymes: -ɛkʃən

Noun

detection (countable and uncountable, plural detections)

  1. The act of detecting or sensing something; discovering something that was hidden or disguised.
    • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity:
      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.
    • 1931, Francis Beeding, “10/6”, in Death Walks in Eastrepps‎:
      “Why should Eldridge commit murder? […] There was only one possible motive—namely, he wished to avoid detection as James Selby of Anaconda Ltd. […] ”
  2. The finding out of a constituent, a signal, an agent or the like, mostly by means of a specific device or method.

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