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Discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of
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detecting
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a police investigation to determine the perpetrator; "detection is hard on the feet" [syn: detection , detective work , sleuthing ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An act of detection. vb. (present participle of detect English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Detect \De*tect"\ (d[-e]*t[e^]kt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Detected ; p. pr. & vb. n. Detecting .] To uncover; to discover; to find out; to bring to light; as, to detect a crime or a criminal; to detect a mistake in an account. Plain good intention . . . is ...
Usage examples of detecting.
With its lens and antennae, it was also the device the two men used for detecting contraband or disease—or so they said.
The one-eyes, not detecting anyone inside, had closed the doors and shorted the switches to keep everyone out.
We have no way of even detecting the gravity due to one gram of water, let alone measure it to see if it's quantized.
Hi-radiation had not only been demonstrated positively to exist, but an instrumental technique for detecting and measuring it had been found.
They were detecting hi-waves where there were no hi-waves to be detected.
Cassidy, the Chief of Detectives in Westcote, and he told us a lot of things about detecting, and Betty said then she wished she could be a detective.
She said she did not think we ought to go far in the car, that amateur detectives should be able to do their detecting without running around in automobiles, and I saw that she did not take Betty's detective ability at all seriously.
This should be no surprise: for example military snipers can 'see in the dark' using infra-red waves, detecting things by the heat they emit.
The first few layers of the visual cortex, for example, perform generalized functions like detecting edges, but we have no idea how lower layers work, and that may well be because they don't conform to any design principles that we currently can recognize.
Therefore, as Linda Sagan has mentioned, the recipe for detecting life on Mars is "Add water.
The number of stars and other objects in our own Milky Way Galaxy is about two hundred billion, and the number that we must examine to have a fair chance of detecting such signals seems to be at least millions.
In the Ten-Forward room, Guinan clapped her hands to her ears, a move that surprised and confused a number of customers who did not have the capability of detecting what it was that Guinan was reacting to.
Even if Deanna had not been empathic, she would have had no trouble detecting Lwaxana's arrival.
Her second thought was somewhat more practical, although no more correct: namely, that the Enterprise life-support system had some sort of fail-safe to negate gravity upon detecting a falling body.
The pilot didn't know much about the SIGINT activities, but SOSUS, the oceanic Sonar Surveillance System, was the principal means of detecting targets for the P-3C Orion crews to pounce on.