detection

detection

See also: détection

English

Etymology

From Latin dētēctiō, from dētegere (“to detect”), from dē- (“un-”) + tegere (“to cover, to hide”). Equivalent to detect +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dəˈtɛkʃən/

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• Rhymes: -ɛkʃən

Noun

detection (countable and uncountable, plural detections)

1. The act or process of detecting, uncovering, or finding out, the discovery of something new, hidden, or disguised.
   • 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 222716698:

     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.

   • 1931, Francis Beeding, “10/6”, in Death Walks in Eastrepps‎:

     “Why should Eldridge commit murder? […] There was only one possible motive—namely, he wished to avoid detection as James Selby of Anaconda Ltd. […] ”

2. (obsolete) Synonym of accusation, the exposure of concealed information about a crime or heresy.
3. (electrical engineering) The act or process of finding or detecting an electrical signal in a carrier wave.

Synonyms

• (electrical engineering): demodulation

Derived terms

• collision detection
• detection comb
• detection dog
• lie detection
• nuclear hydrogen detection meter

 

Descendants

• German: Detektion

Translations

act of detecting or sensing something

Armenian: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: откриване (bg) (otkrivane), разкриване (bg) (razkrivane) Catalan: detecció f Danish: please add this translation if you can Dutch: please add this translation if you can Estonian: please add this translation if you can Finnish: havaitseminen (fi), löytäminen (fi) French: détection (fr) f Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Detektion Greek: ανίχνευση (el) f (aníchnefsi) Hungarian: please add this translation if you can Indonesian: deteksi (id) Irish: lorgaireacht f, brathadóireacht f Italian: identificazione (it) f, investigazione (it) f, rilevazione (it) f, rilevamento (it) m Korean: 탐지 (tamji), 수색 (ko) (susaek) Latin: detectio Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Occitan: deteccion f Persian: شناسایی‎ (fa) (šenâsâyi) Polish: wykrycie (pl) n, wykrywanie (pl) n, detekcja (pl) f Portuguese: detecção (pt) f (Brazil), deteção f (Portugal) Romanian: detecție (ro) Russian: please add this translation if you can Spanish: detección f Swedish: fynd (sv)

the finding out of a constituent, a signal, an agent or the like

French: détection (fr) Indonesian: deteksi (id) Italian: rilevamento (it), detezione Portuguese: detecção (pt) f (Brazil), deteção f (Portugal) Spanish: detección

References

• “detection, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2022.