Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or process of detecting; discovery.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Discovery; finding by search or observation.
- noun The act of detecting, finding out, or bringing to light: a discerning; the state or fact of being detected or found out: as, the detection of faults, crimes, or criminals.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of detecting; the laying open what was concealed or hidden; discovery
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
detecting or sensing something;discovering something that was hidden ordisguised .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a police investigation to determine the perpetrator
- noun the act of detecting something; catching sight of something
- noun the detection that a signal is being received
- noun the perception that something has occurred or some state exists
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Examples
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This spurred a multiyear effort by Singhal and his team to produce a name detection system within the search engine.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
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This spurred a multiyear effort by Singhal and his team to produce a name detection system within the search engine.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
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I also feel that Aquinas 'five proofs of God are sufficient and that no empirical "design detection" is needed.
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The 4-megapixel camera has 32MB of built-in memory, and its range of detection is about 35 feet.
Field & Stream Tests Four Trail Cams from Moultrie, Bushnell, Cuddeback, and Stealth Cam 2009
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TSA "behavior detection" is wrong more than 99 percent of the time ...
Boing Boing 2009
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Automatic spam detection is inherently fuzzy, and occasionally a blog like yours is flagged incorrectly.
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TSA "behavior detection" is wrong more than 99 percent of the time ...
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Early detection is key and it starts with routine self breast exams that don't cost a penny.
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That wonderful option of early detection is possible with cervical cancer.
The Tragedy of Jade Goody aka TBTAM 2009
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The 4-megapixel camera has 32MB of built-in memory, and its range of detection is about 35 feet.
Field & Stream Tests Four Trail Cams from Moultrie, Bushnell, Cuddeback, and Stealth Cam 2009
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