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detected
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Word definitions for detected in dictionaries
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 ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Referring to something that has been noticed. v (en-past of: detect )
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. perceived or discerned; "the detected micrometeoritic material" [ant: undetected ] perceived with the mind; "he winced at the detected flicker of irony in her voice"
Usage examples of detected.
But now everything they detected had a potential red star and a periscope attached.
Four months in which we may be detected, four months in which we may lose all the element of surprise.
They had approached at low altitude to stay below the E-3A's radar horizon, and, once detected, were now climbing rapidly, two hundred miles away.
But those radar signals could be detected at an even greater range, generating a return signal, that would potentially allow the Soviets to circle the formation, pinpoint it, then converge in from all points of the compass.
His first warning would come when he detected the fire-control radar of an American F-14 Tomcat heading right at him.
They had detected the American radar signals fifteen minutes before, and knew that each kilometer south meant a greater chance that they would run into a cloud of enemy fighters.
What if they detected Edwards's satellite radio and began to triangulate on it?
It was a standing combat air patrol aircraft should an incoming raid be detected, but more importantly, it was being tracked carefully by the ground radar controllers: their radar needed to be calibrated.
The sub must have detected their radar signals and would now be attempting a crash dive.
Their erstwhile contact would now be exactly two convergence zones away and should have been easily detected, given known water conditions.
At the first suspicion that he had been detected-perhaps his sonar had detected a helicopter overhead or heard the splash of a falling sonobuoy-he went deep and began a confusing series of sprints and drifts, porpoising over and under the layer, working hard to break contact-toward the convoy.
A sonobuoy dropped ten minutes earlier had detected a weak signal, held it for two minutes, then lost it.
We first detected you on that, about three hours before we shot at you.
For the most part, they detected targets on sonar and the crashing sea noise tended to blanket the ship sounds submarines listened for.
The guard ship for the safe-transit corridor, HMS Osiris, had gotten into attack position without their having detected her.