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nondetection

noun

Etymology

From non- + detection.

  1. learned borrowing from detectio
  2. prefixed as nondetection — “non + detection”

Definitions

  1. A failure to detect

    A failure to detect; a negative result

    • Nondetection or nonnotification of cancer has been shown to be most common among patients older than 75 years at the time of diagnosis.
    • Still, at the 3 sigma level, there is about a 50% chance of a false negative if data are censored below that level and are treated as nondetections.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nondetection. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA