Definitions
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- noun The act of disclosing or producing to view something concealed.
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- noun obsolete Act of disclosing or uncovering something concealed.
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- noun obsolete
Disclosure ordetection of somethingconcealed . - noun engineering
Detection through aconcealing layer. (Note: this use is somewhat specific to electrical engineering and related fields investigating the uses of T-Ray Sensing.)
Etymologies
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From Latin retectionem ("to uncover or disclose").
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In 2002 a paper to be titled "Powder detection using THz imaging" (by Wang, Ferguson, Manella, Abbot and Zhang) was mistakenly published as "Powder retection using THz imaging" in OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics, Proceedings of Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, vol.73. (recounted in Proceedings of the IEEE, vol 95, No. 8 August 2007, page 1511, Scanning the Issue: T-Ray Imaging, Sensing and Retection by Derek Abbott and Xi-Cheng Zhang)
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reesetee commented on the word retection
Act of disclosing or uncovering something concealed (obsolete).
April 5, 2007