Word Finder - detection

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The act of detecting or sensing something; discovering something that was hidden or disguised.

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The finding out of a constituent, a signal, an agent or the like, mostly by means of a specific device or method.

Vega devoted great attention to the detection and correction of the errors in Vlacq's work of 1628.

Marconi gave great attention to the improvement of devices for the detection of electric waves..

The detection of the plot led to Mary's own destruction.

The inevitable result was that only an occasional blockaderunner could succeed in escaping detection and attack.

The pieces of glass are then examined for the detection of the grosser defects, and obviously defective pieces are rejected.

In well-equipped waterworks each house service pipe is controlled by a stop-cock accessible from the footpath to the officials of the water authority, and the process of waste detection by this method depends upon the manipulation of such stop-cocks in conjunction with the differentiating meter.

At the risk of execution if captured, he was sent back to England but escaped detection.

The benefits of patient support group were also praised in the report, which stressed the need for early detection.

The weakness of the NeoLamarckian view lies in its interpretation of heredity; its strength lies in its zealous study of the living world and the detection therein of proximate empirical laws, a strength shared by very many bionomical investigations, the authors of which would prefer to call themselves Darwinians, or to leave themselves without sectarian designation.

Closely related to the flame-colorations, we have to notice the great services rendered by the spectroscope to the detection of elements.

The procedure for the detection of metals in solution consists of first separating them into groups and then examining each group separately.

He is best known by his masterly detection of the literary imposture of Vella, which claimed to be a history of the Saracens in Syria.

The late origin of these representations was established by the detection upon them of the cartouches of Tiberius and Nero.

The system, however, does not assist in the detection of the leakage which inevitably occurs between the reservoir and the consumer's meter; thus the whole of the mains, joints and ferrules connecting the service pipes with the mains, and the greater parts of the service pipes, are still exposed to leakage without any compensating return to the water authority.

Will Smith continue to commit crimes, will he become more law-abiding, or will he become more skillful at evading detection?

He spent the night moving from shell hole to shell hole trying to avoid detection - by either side.

The large number of real sources among the spurious detection makes screening difficult.

Here we analyze the prognostic relevance of histopathological grading and the immunohistochemical detection of p53 and p21/WAF1.

Early detection and treatment of adjustment disorders in children has been shown to appreciably reduce the severity of symptoms and improve their quality of life.

When standing among mimosas they so harmonize with their surroundings that they are difficult of detection.

He now signalized himself by his dissolute life and the ingenuity with which he contrived to perpetrate forgeries and other crimes without exposing himself to the risk of detection.

In any case it is fully recognized that the plan of the earth is so clear as to leave no doubt as to its being due to some general cause which should be capable of detection.

Einhard is said to have visited the emperor's daughter regularly and secretly, and on one occasion a fall of snow made it impossible for him to walk away without leaving footprints, which would lead to his detection.

In his office in London men were trained in the arts of deciphering correspondence, feigning handwriting, and of breaking and repairing seals in such a way as to avoid detection.

There is little doubt that it would have been exterminated but for its stock being supplied in autumn by immigration, and for its shy and wary behaviour, especially at the breeding-season, when it becomes almost wholly mute, and thereby often escapes detection.

There is of course the possibility in this case that the toxin was a proteid, but was in so small amount that it escaped detection.

Our objective is to develop novel biosensors based on functionalised carbon nanotubes that boost the detection limits to improve the quality of our lives.

We are currently developing an ion mobility spectrometer for the detection and quantification of trace compounds in exhaled breath in real time.

Furthermore, they are low capacitance enabling the detection of high speed signals to be achieved.

Results The food samples were analyzed by static headspace gas chromatography with mass spectrometric detection at CSL Food Science Laboratory, Norwich.

For example, leather gloves are required to have a chromium VI content less than the limit of detection.

Dial Tone detection circuitry on some modems is also quite fussy.

Consequently the detection beam is usually set with its maximum at an angle of about 3 o to reduce the likelihood of ground clutter.

You need your usual shampoo, ordinary conditioner and a louse detection comb.

Genetic trail The test also allows detection of any of the genetic mutations which can cause cystic fibrosis.

Using fluorescence excitation, sensitivities down to the single molecule detection limit can be achieved.

Block Searcher, Get Blocks and Block Maker are aids to detection and verification of protein sequence homology.

Transillumination allows the detection of fluid extending from a large hydrocele into the inguinal canal.

Alistair McCartney from Rothamsted assessed the methods being developed for detection of airborne pathogen inoculum.

In contrast to other optical methods of the detection of Shear force interactions the fiber interferometer enables to measure the tip amplitude oscillation.

Detection and treatment of precancerous cervical lesions can prevent cancer of the cervix from occurring.

We have imaged demineralised tissue, caries lesions, restored teeth and oral mucosa and demonstrate the detection of changes in tissue microstructure.

There are detection lasers and even rumors about dedicated security lockdown systems that could put you and your mission at great risk.

The two are at constant loggerheads with the distinctly different styles of detection with their love hate relationship slowly developing into something more romantic.

The detection loophole in the refutation of the family of Local Realistic Theories will thereby be closed.

The availability of large amounts of data from modem radar systems makes the automation of target detection almost mandatory.

Photothermal detection of trace compounds in water, using the deflexion of a water meniscus.

I thought that modern mines, along with advanced detection and hull technologies would have made the wooden minesweeper obsolete by now.

One main reason is that the virus is very mutable, and can readily mutate to escape immune detection.

There were no published studies that had compared the sensitivity of the two assays specifically with regard to the detection of gene mutagens.