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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English detect Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English detectable English undetectable From un- + detectable.
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Unable to be detected; not detectable.
In these days of “rolled” gold, electro-plate, and undetectable pearls, it is curious that almost the only honest Ersatz material known to the goldsmith's art should be utterly forgotten.
1923, Arthur Michael Samuel, “Pinchbeck”, in The Mancroft Essays, page 164:“OK, so for a few weeks I've been working on a bit of a side project. I give you the Red Kriegtober.” “Um--” “Or the Red Octkrieger. I can't decide. It's a narco sub for transporting cocaine. It's totally undetectable by the Coast Guard. Thoughts?”
2014 March 24, Adam Reed, “On the Carpet” (17:49 from the start), in Archer, season 5, episode 9, spoken by Dr. Algernop Krieger (Lucky Yates):A trial of scar may be justified in a woman with a previous cesarean section who is currently on HAART, has an undetectable virus and spontaneously goes into labor.
2012, Jyoti Dhar, “A Guide to the Clinical Care of Pregnant Women with HIV”, in Mamatha M Lala, Rashid H Merchant, editors, Principles of Perinatal and Pediatric HIV/AIDS, Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd, →ISBN, page 317:Some forms of data poisoning are undetectable. Attackers can insert adversarial noise into the training data, altering the training data in a way that is hidden to human observers.
2023, Paul Scharre, Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN:
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| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more undetectable | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most undetectable | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
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Translations (11)
fi ei havaittavissa (Unable to be detected) · pl niewykrywalny (Unable to be detected) · pt indetetável (Unable to be detected) · es indetectable (Unable to be detected) · it non rilevabile (Unable to be detected) · fr indétectable (Unable to be detected) · bg неоткриваем (Unable to be detected) · pl nieodczuwalny (Unable to be detected) · mk незабе́лежлив (Unable to be detected) · pt indetectável (Unable to be detected) · ro nedetectabil (Unable to be detected)