WordNet
signal detection
n. the detection that a signal is being received [syn: detection]
Usage examples of "signal detection".
Paul had turned on a signal detection system to scan the sky ahead of the Flyboy scooter, and a single red speck flashed on the screen.
It also kept her from hearing any sound that might have accompanied the distinct spike that had just appeared on the signal detection monitor of her communicator.
All of the pods had been headed toward the Inner System, with Mars as the closest world and the logical place for distress-signal detection.