Meaning

3 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The act or process of detecting, uncovering, or finding out, the discovery of something new, hidden, or disguised.

    Detektion

    выявле́ниеvyjavlénije, обнаруже́ниеobnaružénije, детекти́рованиеdetektírovanije

    the act of detecting something; catching sight of something

  2. (countable, uncountable)The act or process of finding or detecting an electrical signal in a carrier wave.

  3. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Synonym of accusation, the exposure of concealed information about a crime or heresy.

Examples

13 sentences
  1. Fake news detection uses natural language processing.

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  2. I'm testing whether the language detection works again.

    ruЯ проверяю, работает ли снова языковое распознавание.

    deIch überprüfe gerade, ob die Spracherkennung wieder funktioniert.

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  3. Sami took extreme calculated steps to avoid detection.

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  4. What treatment was I likely to get from you in case of detection?

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  5. Early detection is the key to achieving favourable outcomes in the treatment of disease.

    deDie frühzeitige Erkennung der Erkrankung ist der Schlüssel, um gute Ergebnisse bei der Behandlung zu erzielen.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
act of detecting or sensing something:
the finding out of a constituent, a signal, an agent or the like:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
act of detecting or sensing something:

Origin

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

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

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Forms

plural: detections
Singulardetection
Pluraldetections

regular

Synonyms

11 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

23 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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