detection

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a police investigation to determine the perpetrator

   detection is hard on the feet

2. 2
   noun

   the perception that something has occurred or some state exists

   early detection can often lead to a cure

3. 3
   noun

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

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   the act of detecting something

5. 5
   noun

   the detection that a signal is being received

6. 6
   noun

   Synonym of accusation, the exposure of concealed information about a crime or heresy.

7. 7
   noun

   The act or process of finding or detecting an electrical signal in a carrier wave.

Etymology

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