detection
nounEtymology
Learned borrowing from Latin dētēctiōnem. By surface analysis, detect + -ion.
- learned borrowing from detectio
Definitions
The act or process of detecting, uncovering, or finding out, the discovery of something…
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.
- “Why should Eldridge commit murder?[…]There was only one possible motive—namely, he wished to avoid detection as James Selby of Anaconda Ltd.[…]”
Synonym of accusation, the exposure of concealed information about a crime or heresy.
The act or process of finding or detecting an electrical signal in a carrier wave.
The neighborhood
- synonymdemodulation
Derived
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
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at detection. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at detection. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at detection
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA