Dictionary

detection en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /dɪˈtek.ʃən/ (Australia)
• /dɪˈtɛk.ʃən/ (UK, US)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin dētēctiōnem. By surface analysis, detect + -ion.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The act or process of detecting, uncovering, or finding out, the discovery of something new, hidden, or disguised.
   • “Why should Eldridge commit murder?[…]There was only one possible motive—namely, he wished to avoid detection as James Selby of Anaconda Ltd.[…]” 1931, Francis Beeding, “10/6”, in Death Walks in Eastrepps:
   • In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
2. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Synonym of accusation, the exposure of concealed information about a crime or heresy.
3. (countable, uncountable) The act or process of finding or detecting an electrical signal in a carrier wave.

Forms

Deriveds

multidetection · codetection · misdetection · nuclear hydrogen detection meter · detection dog · redetection · immunodetection · autodetection · microdetection · detection comb · chemodetection · subdetection · non-detection · lie detection · biodetection · underdetection · overdetection · antidetection · serodetection · thermodetection · Canny edge detection · collision detection · nondetection · photodetection · radiodetection

Descendants

Detektion

Synonyms

accusation · demodulation

Translations (38)

it investigazione (act of detecting or sensing something) · it rilevamento (the finding out of a constituent, a signal, an agent or the like) · it identificazione (act of detecting or sensing something) · pt deteção (act of detecting or sensing something) · fa شناسایی (act of detecting or sensing something) · ru обнаруже́ние (act of detecting or sensing something) · it rilevazione (act of detecting or sensing something) · fr détection (the finding out of a constituent, a signal, an agent or the like) · es detección (act of detecting or sensing something) · it rilevamento (act of detecting or sensing something) · fi löytäminen (act of detecting or sensing something) · pt detecção (the finding out of a constituent, a signal, an agent or the like) · pl wykrywanie (act of detecting or sensing something) · de Detektion (act of detecting or sensing something) · ga lorgaireacht (act of detecting or sensing something) · id deteksi (the finding out of a constituent, a signal, an agent or the like) · fi havaitseminen (act of detecting or sensing something) · ko 탐지 (act of detecting or sensing something) · ga brathadóireacht (act of detecting or sensing something) · fr détection (act of detecting or sensing something) · es detección (the finding out of a constituent, a signal, an agent or the like) · it detezione (the finding out of a constituent, a signal, an agent or the like) · sv fynd (act of detecting or sensing something) · ca detecció (act of detecting or sensing something) · bg откриване (act of detecting or sensing something) · bg разкриване (act of detecting or sensing something) · pl detekcja (act of detecting or sensing something) · ru детекти́рование (the finding out of a constituent, a signal, an agent or the like) · pt detecção (act of detecting or sensing something) · ko 수색 (act of detecting or sensing something) · pl wykrycie (act of detecting or sensing something) · id deteksi (act of detecting or sensing something) · el ανίχνευση (act of detecting or sensing something) · la detectio (act of detecting or sensing something) · ro detecție (act of detecting or sensing something) · ru выявле́ние (act of detecting or sensing something) · oc deteccion (act of detecting or sensing something) · pt deteção (the finding out of a constituent, a signal, an agent or the like)