detection C1 Topic:Crime & Justice US /dɪˈtek.ʃən/ UK /dɪˈtɛk.ʃən/ See IPA manual Freq #14297 Meanings 1 noun The act of noticing or discovering that something exists or has happened. Early detection of cancer can often lead to a cure. 2 noun The process of investigating and uncovering a crime. The detective's careful detection finally caught the thief. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 noun · the act of noticing or... sensingspotting 2 noun · the process of... detecting More demodulation Word family Forms detections Derived forms antidetectionautodetectionbiodetectionchemodetectioncodetectionimmunodetectionmicrodetectionmisdetectionmultidetectionnon-detectionnondetectionoverdetection Common collocations signal detection Noun + noun Etymology AI details Learned borrowing from Latin dētēctiōnem. By surface analysis, detect + -ion. detectio Latin View etymology graph -> Topics Crime & Justice Word Formation & Derivatives External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # detection **Type:** Word **Level:** C1 **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /dɪˈtek.ʃən/ **IPA (UK):** /dɪˈtɛk.ʃən/ **Frequency rank:** 14297 ## Meanings 1. The act of noticing or discovering that something exists or has happened. 2. The process of investigating and uncovering a crime. ## Examples - Early detection of cancer can often lead to a cure. - The detective's careful detection finally caught the thief. ## Synonyms - demodulation ## Derived Forms - antidetection - autodetection - biodetection - chemodetection - codetection - immunodetection - microdetection - misdetection - multidetection - non-detection - nondetection - overdetection ## Roots and Affixes - Root: detectio ## Etymology Learned borrowing from Latin dētēctiōnem. By surface analysis, detect + -ion. ## AI Etymology Detection is a learned borrowing from Latin dētēctiōnem. By surface analysis, detect + -ion. The historical chain includes detectio (Latin). The surrounding word family includes derived forms such as antidetection, autodetection, biodetection, and chemodetection. In present use it covers the act of noticing or discovering that something exists or has happened and the process of investigating and uncovering a crime. ## Topics - Crime & Justice - Word Formation & Derivatives markdown