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Definition of Detection
1. Noun. The perception that something has occurred or some state exists. "Early detection can often lead to a cure"
2. Noun. The act of detecting something; catching sight of something.
Generic synonyms: Discovery, Find, Uncovering
Derivative terms: Detect, Espy, Spot, Spy
3. Noun. The detection that a signal is being received.
4. Noun. A police investigation to determine the perpetrator. "Detection is hard on the feet"
Generic synonyms: Police Investigation, Police Work
Derivative terms: Detect, Sleuth
Definition of Detection
1. n. The act of detecting; the laying open what was concealed or hidden; discovery; as, the detection of a thief; the detection of fraud, forgery, or a plot.
Definition of Detection
1. Noun. The act of detecting or sensing something; discovering something that was hidden or disguised. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Detection
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Detection
1. Act of detecting, discovery, the laying open of what was concealed or hidden or of what tends to elude observation. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Detection
Literary usage of Detection
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Technology Against Terrorism: The Federal Effort (1992)
"In general, detection techniques can be divided into two main ... A list of
various types of explosives detection strategies is presented in table 4-2 and a ..."
2. Technology Against Terrorism: Structuring Security (1994)
"These include the statistical parameters generally used to define the performance
of detection devices, the statistics used to describe systems composed of ..."
3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1881)
"detection OF OLEOMARGARINE. By P. CASAMAJOR. In the Moniteur Scientifique for
April, 1881, is an article on Butter Analysis, in which are given the ..."
4. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham (1879)
"The dangers, therefore, which may threaten an offender from this quarter, depend,
whatever they may be, on the event of his detection; and may, therefore, ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1881)
"DURING the late civil war, from the frequency of lodgment of fragments of shell,
canister, and grape-shot, an efficient instrument for the detection in the ..."
6. Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis by C. Remigius Fresenius, Samuel William Johnson (1880)
"THE detection and separation of the alkaloids is far more difficult than ... C.
Systematic course for the detection of an alkaloid when only one is present. ..."
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