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Definition of "detection" []

  • The act or process of detecting; discovery: detection of a crime; detection of radiation from a distant galaxy. (noun)
  • See demodulation. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "detection" in a sentence
  • "This spurred a multiyear effort by Singhal and his team to produce a name detection system within the search engine."
  • "That wonderful option of early detection is possible with cervical cancer."
  • "TSA "behavior detection" is wrong more than 99 percent of the time ..."