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detection Definition

de·tec·tion (dē tek′s̸hən, di-)

noun

  1. a finding out or being found out: said esp. of what tends to elude notice
  2. demodulation

Etymology: ME < LL detectio: see detect

detection Synonyms

detection

n.

apprehension, exposure, disclosure; see discovery 1, exposure 1.

detection Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • oocysts: Two incidents were concerned with the detection of Cryptosporidium oocysts, both occurred at Capel Curig Water Treatment Works during August.
  • abnormality: This will enable more effective detection of genetic abnormalities, such as heart conditions, reducing the need for invasive and risky amniocentesis.
  • fraud: This is a key control for the prevention and detection of fraud.
  • plagiarism: Software is also available to help in the detection of plagiarism.

Converse of object

  • evade: Will Smith continue to commit crimes, will he become more law-abiding, or will he become more skillful at evading detection?
  • escape: At the risk of execution if captured, he was sent back to England but escaped detection.
  • avoid: He spent the night moving from shell hole to shell hole trying to avoid detection - by either side.

Adjective modifier

  • spurious: The large number of real sources among the spurious detection makes screening difficult.
  • automatic: The automatic detection of input signals always switches to the video source with the highest priority.
  • early: The benefits of patient support group were also praised in the report, which stressed the need for early detection.
  • immunohistochemical: Here we analyze the prognostic relevance of histopathological grading and the immunohistochemical detection of p53 and p21/WAF1.
  • spectrometric: Analysis of PCP acetate was by gas chromatography with electron capture and finally with mass spectrometric detection.
  • m1: A comparison with the M1 detections ( blue small circles ) identifies the clumps in this supernova remnant.

Modifies a noun

  • algorithm: The source detection algorithm used a sliding cell method.

Noun used with modifier

  • intrusion: Network intrusion detection sensors are usually built around low level models of network traffic.
  • plagiarism: Plagiarism Detection Service JISC support a national Plagiarism Detection service which staff may register to use.
  • sanction: What measures were being undertaken to reduce the sanction detection rate for homophobic crime?
  • collision: Collision Detection Don't make it too easy for them!
  • leak: A description of different methods of leak detection is provided.
  • fluorescence: Capabilities extend to all modes of CE and to sensitive UV, MS or fluorescence detection.
detection Quotes

Detection is, orought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love- story oran elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid.

—Doyle, SirArthur Conan

When physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, contribute to the detection of concrete human woes and to the development of plans for remedying them and relieving the human estate, they become moral; they become part of the apparatus of moral inquiry or science† When the consciousness of science is fully impregnated with the consciousness of human value, the greatest dualism which now weighs humanity down, the split between the material, the mechanical and the scientific and the moral and ideal will be destroyed.

—Dewey,John