What does detecting mean?
Definitions for detecting
de·tect·ing
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Princeton's WordNet
detection, detecting, detective work, sleuthingnoun
a police investigation to determine the perpetrator
"detection is hard on the feet"
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detecting
Detecting refers to the process of discovering, identifying, recognizing, or noticing something, usually through observing, collecting data, or using specific tools or techniques. It often implies searching for or highlighting something concealed, not immediately apparent, or challenging to find or recognize. It could also refer to identifying significant patterns, changes, or abnormalities in systems, environments, or human behavior.
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Detecting
of Detect
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of detecting in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of detecting in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of detecting in a Sentence
Detecting this system is probably the easy bit, because the star is so small and the brown dwarf relatively large, the transit signal is actually about 10 times larger than that of [a typical exoplanet that turns up in surveys of the night sky].
Water ice is, at present, not stable at the very surface of Mars near the equator at these elevations, so, it’s not surprising that we’re not detecting any water ice at the surface. It is possible that all the glacier’s water ice has sublimated away by now. But there’s also a chance that some of it might still be protected at shallow depth under the sulfate salts.
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson:
Our government’s become pretty good at detecting and preventing something hatched from overseas.
It’s the most extreme concentration of lightning that we’ve ever detected, we’ve been detecting lightning for 40 years now, and this is really an extreme event.
We believe, let me be very cautious here, we believe we are probably detecting in excess of 75% of cases - we may be missing up to a quarter of cases, we must get earlier detection of cases, have more exhaustive identification of contacts.
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- rilevamentoItalian
- phát hiệnVietnamese
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