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Detectable

Detectable \De*tect"a*ble\ (-[.a]*b'l), Detectible \De*tect"i*ble\, a. Capable of being detected or found out; as, parties not detectable. ``Errors detectible at a glance.''
--Latham.

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detectable

a. That which can be detected, noticeable.

WordNet
detectable
  1. adj. capable of being detected; "after a noticeable pause the lecturer continued" [syn: noticeable]

  2. easily seen or detected; "a detectable note of sarcasm"; "he continued after a perceptible pause" [syn: perceptible]

Usage examples of "detectable".

He kept them all very busy with visual observations, spectra and bolometer readings becoming very excited at the rise in surface temperature detectable over the next few hours, caused, most probably, by the scouring friction of those million-mile winds.

I knew that when Chubby had finished repairing the woodwork the damage would not be detectable.

Working with her new husband, Pierre, Curie found that certain kinds of rocks poured out constant and extraordinary amounts of energy, yet without diminishing in size or changing in any detectable way.

The individual neutron light signals reaching the photo-multiplier produce short avalanches of electrons, a signal which is detectable as a negative electrical pulse at the last dynode of the tube.

The terrific strain might have opened cracks in the lux metal hull that would not be detectable from the inside because the inner wall was separated from the outer envelope.

The yelling at the door was growing intense, and the first hints of organized battering were detectable.

Each bottle arrives with a piece of paper stating that the urine contains no detectable amounts of amphetamines, barbiturates, methadone, opiates, metabolized cocaine, benzodiazepine or THC, the active ingredient in marijuana.

Rex Quant was actually in this room, and for a long enough time to provide a detectable trace after a lapse of two months.

But a forger with knowledge of modern chemical and radiometric dating methods could manufacture a fake that would not be easily detectable.

RNA is abundant in infected cells, but virion RNA is not detectable, suggesting rapid packaging of genomic RNA.

Still, torpedoes had been running the gauntlet without loss for twenty years, and the only detectable flatlander activity had been radar beams in the last two or three.

Russian-born George Gamow, who had worked on the theory of nuclear synthesis in the 1930s and been involved in the Manhattan Project, conjectured that if an atomic bomb could, in a fraction of a millionth of a second, create elements detectable at the test site in the desert years later, then perhaps an explosion on a colossal scale could have produced the elements making up the universe as we know it.

The system transmitted microbursts at low radiation levels that would be far less detectable than voices.

Such a hebb-type modification might indeed be detectable by appropriate neurophysiological or biochemical measures.

Because at last we had a nondestructive means of scanning the exact state of muons through infinitesimal passages of time, we were able to find some astonishing correlations between memory and the barely detectable muon states of slant and yaw.