Definitions for detection

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detection de·tec·tion

Spelling: [dih-tek-shuh n]

IPA: /dɪˈtɛk ʃən/

Detection is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 282 anagrams from letters in detection (cdeeinott).

Definitions for detection

noun

1. the act of detecting.
2. the fact of being detected.
3. discovery, as of error or crime:
4. Telecommunications. rectification of alternating signal currents in a radio receiver. Also called demodulation. the conversion of an alternating, modulated carrier wave or current into a direct, pulsating current equivalent to the transmitted information-bearing signal.

Origin of detection

1425-75; late Middle English Late Latin dētēctiōn- (stem of dētēctiō), equivalent to Latin dētēct(us) (see detect) + -iōn- -ion

Examples for detection

But this was only his second detection, and three of his four days of probation were past.

Every page would carry its own proof of transgression, and thus its own guarantee of detection.

I was afraid to set the weights down for fear of detection and punishment.

The risk of detection, so that they made little noise, was negligible.

And while detection is part of the battle, prevention is by far more important.

If detection lag time is 10 days, then that, plus a healthy margin, should be the “deferral” period.

The F-35 is susceptible to detection by radars operating in the VHF bands of the spectrum.

That was clearly impracticable and fraught with too much risk of detection.

A detection method stopped a deadly Listeria outbreak associated with contaminated cheese.

The word refers to the detection by the mother of the movements of the child.