"detection" meaning in English

See detection in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /dɪˈtɛk.ʃən/ [UK, US], /dɪˈtek.ʃən/ [General-Australian] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-detection.wav Forms: detections [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛkʃən Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin dētēctiōnem. By surface analysis, detect + -ion. Etymology templates: {{lbor|en|la|detectio|dētēctiōnem}} Learned borrowing from Latin dētēctiōnem, {{surf|en|detect|-ion}} By surface analysis, detect + -ion Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} detection (countable and uncountable, plural detections)
  1. The act or process of detecting, uncovering, or finding out, the discovery of something new, hidden, or disguised. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (act of detecting or sensing something): откриване (otkrivane) (Bulgarian), разкриване (razkrivane) (Bulgarian), detecció [feminine] (Catalan), havaitseminen (Finnish), löytäminen (Finnish), détection [feminine] (French), Detektion (German), ανίχνευση (aníchnefsi) [feminine] (Greek), deteksi (Indonesian), lorgaireacht [feminine] (Irish), brathadóireacht [feminine] (Irish), identificazione [feminine] (Italian), investigazione [feminine] (Italian), rilevazione [feminine] (Italian), rilevamento [masculine] (Italian), 탐지 (tamji) (Korean), 수색 (susaek) (Korean), detectio (Latin), deteccion [feminine] (Occitan), شناسایی (šenâsâyi) (Persian), wykrycie [neuter] (Polish), wykrywanie [neuter] (Polish), detekcja [feminine] (Polish), detecção [Brazil, feminine] (Portuguese), deteção [Portugal, feminine] (Portuguese), detecție (Romanian), detección [feminine] (Spanish), fynd (Swedish) Translations (the finding out of a constituent, a signal, an agent or the like): détection (French), deteksi (Indonesian), rilevamento (Italian), detezione (Italian), detecção [Brazil, feminine] (Portuguese), deteção [Portugal, feminine] (Portuguese), detección (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-detection-en-noun-LmTRBct5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with de-, English terms suffixed with -ion, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Indonesian translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Korean translations, Terms with Latin translations, Terms with Occitan translations, Terms with Persian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 60 21 18 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with de-: 47 28 24 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ion: 58 24 18 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 65 20 15 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 63 21 16 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 68 18 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 58 26 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 60 25 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 60 25 16 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 61 24 15 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 60 24 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 44 27 29 Disambiguation of Terms with Indonesian translations: 60 25 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 59 23 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 62 24 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Korean translations: 60 25 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Latin translations: 62 24 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Occitan translations: 60 24 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Persian translations: 59 23 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 61 24 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 55 31 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 60 25 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 65 22 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 61 24 15 Disambiguation of 'act of detecting or sensing something': 63 3 34 Disambiguation of 'the finding out of a constituent, a signal, an agent or the like': 74 10 16
  2. (obsolete) Synonym of accusation, the exposure of concealed information about a crime or heresy. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable Synonyms: accusation [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-detection-en-noun-Yj1QSpXd
  3. (electrical engineering) The act or process of finding or detecting an electrical signal in a carrier wave. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Electrical engineering
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: demodulation [engineering, physical-sciences, natural-sciences, electrical, electricity, electrical-engineering, electromagnetism, energy, business, physics]

Inflected forms

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "antidetection"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "autodetection"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "biodetection"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "Canny edge detection"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "chemodetection"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "codetection"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "collision detection"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "detection comb"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "detection dog"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "immunodetection"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "lie detection"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "microdetection"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "misdetection"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "multidetection"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "non-detection"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "nondetection"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "nuclear hydrogen detection meter"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "overdetection"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "photodetection"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "radiodetection"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "redetection"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "serodetection"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "subdetection"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "thermodetection"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "underdetection"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "de",
            "2": "Detektion",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ German: Detektion",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ German: Detektion"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "detectio",
        "4": "dētēctiōnem"
      },
      "expansion": "Learned borrowing from Latin dētēctiōnem",
      "name": "lbor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "detect",
        "3": "-ion"
      },
      "expansion": "By surface analysis, detect + -ion",
      "name": "surf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Learned borrowing from Latin dētēctiōnem. By surface analysis, detect + -ion.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "detections",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "detection (countable and uncountable, plural detections)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "60 21 18",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "47 28 24",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with de-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "58 24 18",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ion",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "65 20 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "63 21 16",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "68 18 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "58 26 16",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "60 25 16",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Catalan translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "60 25 16",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "61 24 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with French translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "60 24 16",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with German translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "44 27 29",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Greek translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "60 25 16",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Indonesian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "59 23 18",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Irish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "62 24 14",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Italian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "60 25 16",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Korean translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "62 24 14",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Latin translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "60 24 16",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Occitan translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "59 23 18",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Persian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "61 24 16",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Polish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "55 31 14",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "60 25 16",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Romanian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "65 22 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "61 24 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "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., →OCLC:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1931, Francis Beeding, “10/6”, in Death Walks in Eastrepps:",
          "text": "“Why should Eldridge commit murder?[…]There was only one possible motive—namely, he wished to avoid detection as James Selby of Anaconda Ltd.[…]”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act or process of detecting, uncovering, or finding out, the discovery of something new, hidden, or disguised."
      ],
      "id": "en-detection-en-noun-LmTRBct5",
      "links": [
        [
          "act",
          "act"
        ],
        [
          "process",
          "process"
        ],
        [
          "detecting",
          "detecting"
        ],
        [
          "uncovering",
          "uncovering"
        ],
        [
          "finding out",
          "finding out"
        ],
        [
          "discovery",
          "discovery"
        ],
        [
          "new",
          "new"
        ],
        [
          "hidden",
          "hidden"
        ],
        [
          "disguised",
          "disguised"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "63 3 34",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "otkrivane",
          "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
          "word": "откриване"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "63 3 34",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "razkrivane",
          "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
          "word": "разкриване"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "63 3 34",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "detecció"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "63 3 34",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
          "word": "havaitseminen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "63 3 34",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
          "word": "löytäminen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "63 3 34",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "détection"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "63 3 34",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
          "word": "Detektion"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "63 3 34",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "aníchnefsi",
          "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ανίχνευση"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "63 3 34",
          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
          "word": "deteksi"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "63 3 34",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "lorgaireacht"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "63 3 34",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "brathadóireacht"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "63 3 34",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "identificazione"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "63 3 34",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "investigazione"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "63 3 34",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "rilevazione"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "63 3 34",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "rilevamento"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "63 3 34",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "tamji",
          "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
          "word": "탐지"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "63 3 34",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "susaek",
          "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
          "word": "수색"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "63 3 34",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
          "word": "detectio"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "63 3 34",
          "code": "oc",
          "lang": "Occitan",
          "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "deteccion"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "63 3 34",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "šenâsâyi",
          "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
          "word": "شناسایی"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "63 3 34",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "wykrycie"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "63 3 34",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "wykrywanie"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "63 3 34",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "detekcja"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "63 3 34",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
          "tags": [
            "Brazil",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "detecção"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "63 3 34",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
          "tags": [
            "Portugal",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "deteção"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "63 3 34",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
          "word": "detecție"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "63 3 34",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "detección"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "63 3 34",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
          "word": "fynd"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "74 10 16",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "the finding out of a constituent, a signal, an agent or the like",
          "word": "détection"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "74 10 16",
          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "the finding out of a constituent, a signal, an agent or the like",
          "word": "deteksi"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "74 10 16",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "the finding out of a constituent, a signal, an agent or the like",
          "word": "rilevamento"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "74 10 16",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "the finding out of a constituent, a signal, an agent or the like",
          "word": "detezione"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "74 10 16",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "the finding out of a constituent, a signal, an agent or the like",
          "tags": [
            "Brazil",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "detecção"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "74 10 16",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "the finding out of a constituent, a signal, an agent or the like",
          "tags": [
            "Portugal",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "deteção"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "74 10 16",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "the finding out of a constituent, a signal, an agent or the like",
          "word": "detección"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of accusation, the exposure of concealed information about a crime or heresy."
      ],
      "id": "en-detection-en-noun-Yj1QSpXd",
      "links": [
        [
          "accusation",
          "accusation#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) Synonym of accusation, the exposure of concealed information about a crime or heresy."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "extra": "the exposure of concealed information about a crime or heresy",
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "accusation"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Electrical engineering",
          "orig": "en:Electrical engineering",
          "parents": [
            "Electricity",
            "Engineering",
            "Electromagnetism",
            "Applied sciences",
            "Technology",
            "Physics",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act or process of finding or detecting an electrical signal in a carrier wave."
      ],
      "id": "en-detection-en-noun-8EDJXNoZ",
      "links": [
        [
          "electrical engineering",
          "electrical engineering"
        ],
        [
          "act",
          "act"
        ],
        [
          "process",
          "process"
        ],
        [
          "finding",
          "finding"
        ],
        [
          "detecting",
          "detecting"
        ],
        [
          "electrical",
          "electrical"
        ],
        [
          "signal",
          "signal"
        ],
        [
          "carrier wave",
          "carrier wave"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(electrical engineering) The act or process of finding or detecting an electrical signal in a carrier wave."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "electrical",
        "electrical-engineering",
        "electricity",
        "electromagnetism",
        "energy",
        "engineering",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "physics"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/dɪˈtɛk.ʃən/",
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-detection.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a9/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-detection.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-detection.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a9/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-detection.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-detection.wav.ogg"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/dɪˈtek.ʃən/",
      "tags": [
        "General-Australian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛkʃən"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "topics": [
        "engineering",
        "physical-sciences",
        "natural-sciences",
        "electrical",
        "electricity",
        "electrical-engineering",
        "electromagnetism",
        "energy",
        "business",
        "physics"
      ],
      "word": "demodulation"
    }
  ],
  "word": "detection"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English learned borrowings from Latin",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English terms prefixed with de-",
    "English terms suffixed with -ion",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:English/ɛkʃən",
    "Rhymes:English/ɛkʃən/3 syllables",
    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Catalan translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Greek translations",
    "Terms with Indonesian translations",
    "Terms with Irish translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Korean translations",
    "Terms with Latin translations",
    "Terms with Occitan translations",
    "Terms with Persian translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Romanian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "antidetection"
    },
    {
      "word": "autodetection"
    },
    {
      "word": "biodetection"
    },
    {
      "word": "Canny edge detection"
    },
    {
      "word": "chemodetection"
    },
    {
      "word": "codetection"
    },
    {
      "word": "collision detection"
    },
    {
      "word": "detection comb"
    },
    {
      "word": "detection dog"
    },
    {
      "word": "immunodetection"
    },
    {
      "word": "lie detection"
    },
    {
      "word": "microdetection"
    },
    {
      "word": "misdetection"
    },
    {
      "word": "multidetection"
    },
    {
      "word": "non-detection"
    },
    {
      "word": "nondetection"
    },
    {
      "word": "nuclear hydrogen detection meter"
    },
    {
      "word": "overdetection"
    },
    {
      "word": "photodetection"
    },
    {
      "word": "radiodetection"
    },
    {
      "word": "redetection"
    },
    {
      "word": "serodetection"
    },
    {
      "word": "subdetection"
    },
    {
      "word": "thermodetection"
    },
    {
      "word": "underdetection"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "de",
            "2": "Detektion",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ German: Detektion",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ German: Detektion"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "detectio",
        "4": "dētēctiōnem"
      },
      "expansion": "Learned borrowing from Latin dētēctiōnem",
      "name": "lbor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "detect",
        "3": "-ion"
      },
      "expansion": "By surface analysis, detect + -ion",
      "name": "surf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Learned borrowing from Latin dētēctiōnem. By surface analysis, detect + -ion.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "detections",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "detection (countable and uncountable, plural detections)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "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., →OCLC:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1931, Francis Beeding, “10/6”, in Death Walks in Eastrepps:",
          "text": "“Why should Eldridge commit murder?[…]There was only one possible motive—namely, he wished to avoid detection as James Selby of Anaconda Ltd.[…]”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act or process of detecting, uncovering, or finding out, the discovery of something new, hidden, or disguised."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "act",
          "act"
        ],
        [
          "process",
          "process"
        ],
        [
          "detecting",
          "detecting"
        ],
        [
          "uncovering",
          "uncovering"
        ],
        [
          "finding out",
          "finding out"
        ],
        [
          "discovery",
          "discovery"
        ],
        [
          "new",
          "new"
        ],
        [
          "hidden",
          "hidden"
        ],
        [
          "disguised",
          "disguised"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of accusation, the exposure of concealed information about a crime or heresy."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "accusation",
          "accusation#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) Synonym of accusation, the exposure of concealed information about a crime or heresy."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "extra": "the exposure of concealed information about a crime or heresy",
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "accusation"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Electrical engineering"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act or process of finding or detecting an electrical signal in a carrier wave."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "electrical engineering",
          "electrical engineering"
        ],
        [
          "act",
          "act"
        ],
        [
          "process",
          "process"
        ],
        [
          "finding",
          "finding"
        ],
        [
          "detecting",
          "detecting"
        ],
        [
          "electrical",
          "electrical"
        ],
        [
          "signal",
          "signal"
        ],
        [
          "carrier wave",
          "carrier wave"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(electrical engineering) The act or process of finding or detecting an electrical signal in a carrier wave."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "electrical",
        "electrical-engineering",
        "electricity",
        "electromagnetism",
        "energy",
        "engineering",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "physics"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/dɪˈtɛk.ʃən/",
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-detection.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a9/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-detection.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-detection.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a9/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-detection.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-detection.wav.ogg"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/dɪˈtek.ʃən/",
      "tags": [
        "General-Australian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛkʃən"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "topics": [
        "engineering",
        "physical-sciences",
        "natural-sciences",
        "electrical",
        "electricity",
        "electrical-engineering",
        "electromagnetism",
        "energy",
        "business",
        "physics"
      ],
      "word": "demodulation"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "otkrivane",
      "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
      "word": "откриване"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "razkrivane",
      "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
      "word": "разкриване"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "detecció"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
      "word": "havaitseminen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
      "word": "löytäminen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "détection"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
      "word": "Detektion"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "aníchnefsi",
      "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ανίχνευση"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
      "word": "deteksi"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "lorgaireacht"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "brathadóireacht"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "identificazione"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "investigazione"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "rilevazione"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "rilevamento"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "tamji",
      "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
      "word": "탐지"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "susaek",
      "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
      "word": "수색"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
      "word": "detectio"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "deteccion"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "šenâsâyi",
      "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
      "word": "شناسایی"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "wykrycie"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "wykrywanie"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "detekcja"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "detecção"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
      "tags": [
        "Portugal",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "deteção"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
      "word": "detecție"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "detección"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "act of detecting or sensing something",
      "word": "fynd"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "the finding out of a constituent, a signal, an agent or the like",
      "word": "détection"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "the finding out of a constituent, a signal, an agent or the like",
      "word": "deteksi"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "the finding out of a constituent, a signal, an agent or the like",
      "word": "rilevamento"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "the finding out of a constituent, a signal, an agent or the like",
      "word": "detezione"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "the finding out of a constituent, a signal, an agent or the like",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "detecção"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "the finding out of a constituent, a signal, an agent or the like",
      "tags": [
        "Portugal",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "deteção"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "the finding out of a constituent, a signal, an agent or the like",
      "word": "detección"
    }
  ],
  "word": "detection"
}

Download raw JSONL data for detection meaning in English (10.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.