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countable and uncountable, plural detections
The act or process of detecting, uncovering, or finding out, the discovery of something new, hidden, or disguised. quotations examples
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.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.
“Why should Eldridge commit murder? […] There was only one possible motive—namely, he wished to avoid detection as James Selby of Anaconda Ltd. […] ”
1931, Francis Beeding, “10/6”, in Death Walks in Eastrepps
(obsolete) Synonym of accusation, the exposure of concealed information about a crime or heresy.
(electrical engineering) The act or process of finding or detecting an electrical signal in a carrier wave. examples