What does detect mean?
Definitions for detect
dɪˈtɛktde·tect
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Princeton's WordNet
detect, observe, find, discover, noticeverb
discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of
"She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water"; "We found traces of lead in the paint"
Wiktionary
detectverb
to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing
Etymology: From detectus, perfect passive participle of detegere, from de- + tegere; see tegument, tile, thatch
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To DETECTverb
To discover; to find out any crime or artifice.
Etymology: detectus, Latin.
There’s no true lover in the forest, else sighing every minute and groaning every hour, would detect the lazy foot of time as well as a clock. William Shakespeare, As you like it.
Though should I hold my peace, yet thou
Would’st easily detect what I conceal. John Milton, Paradise Lost.
Wikipedia
Detect
A sensor is a device that produces an output signal for the purpose of sensing a physical phenomenon. In the broadest definition, a sensor is a device, module, machine, or subsystem that detects events or changes in its environment and sends the information to other electronics, frequently a computer processor. Sensors are always used with other electronics. Sensors are used in everyday objects such as touch-sensitive elevator buttons (tactile sensor) and lamps which dim or brighten by touching the base, and in innumerable applications of which most people are never aware. With advances in micromachinery and easy-to-use microcontroller platforms, the uses of sensors have expanded beyond the traditional fields of temperature, pressure and flow measurement, for example into MARG sensors. Analog sensors such as potentiometers and force-sensing resistors are still widely used. Their applications include manufacturing and machinery, airplanes and aerospace, cars, medicine, robotics and many other aspects of our day-to-day life. There is a wide range of other sensors that measure chemical and physical properties of materials, including optical sensors for refractive index measurement, vibrational sensors for fluid viscosity measurement, and electro-chemical sensors for monitoring pH of fluids. A sensor's sensitivity indicates how much its output changes when the input quantity it measures changes. For instance, if the mercury in a thermometer moves 1 cm when the temperature changes by 1 °C, its sensitivity is 1 cm/°C (it is basically the slope dy/dx assuming a linear characteristic). Some sensors can also affect what they measure; for instance, a room temperature thermometer inserted into a hot cup of liquid cools the liquid while the liquid heats the thermometer. Sensors are usually designed to have a small effect on what is measured; making the sensor smaller often improves this and may introduce other advantages.Technological progress allows more and more sensors to be manufactured on a microscopic scale as microsensors using MEMS technology. In most cases, a microsensor reaches a significantly faster measurement time and higher sensitivity compared with macroscopic approaches. Due to the increasing demand for rapid, affordable and reliable information in today's world, disposable sensors—low-cost and easy‐to‐use devices for short‐term monitoring or single‐shot measurements—have recently gained growing importance. Using this class of sensors, critical analytical information can be obtained by anyone, anywhere and at any time, without the need for recalibration and worrying about contamination.
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detect
Detect generally refers to the act of discovering or identifying the presence or existence of something. This can involve the use of senses, instruments, or other methods to notice or find out something that may not be immediately obvious or visible.
Webster Dictionary
Detectadjective
detected
Detectverb
to uncover; to discover; to find out; to bring to light; as, to detect a crime or a criminal; to detect a mistake in an account
Detectverb
to inform against; to accuse
Etymology: [L. detectus, p. p. of detegere to uncover, detect; de + tegere to cover. See Tegument.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Detect
de-tekt′, v.t. (lit.) to uncover—hence to discover: to find out.—adjs. Detect′able, Detect′ible.—ns. Detect′er, -or, one who detects: an apparatus for detecting something, as a detector-lock, which shows if it has been tampered with; Detec′tion, discovery of something hidden: state of being found out.—adj. Detect′ive, employed in detecting.—n. a policeman employed in the investigation of special cases of crime, or in watching special classes of wrong-doers, usually not in uniform.—Private detective, one employed by a private person to gain information, or to watch his interests. [L. detectum, detegĕre—de, neg., and tegĕre, tectum, to cover.]
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Rank popularity for the word 'detect' in Verbs Frequency: #526
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The numerical value of detect in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
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The numerical value of detect in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of detect in a Sentence
We just cant detect dark matter directly, thats what leads to the present uncertainty in the Milky Ways mass you cant measure accurately what you cant see.
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is no longer a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), however a high level of vigilance and response capacity must be maintained to ensure the ability of the countries to prevent Ebola infections and to rapidly detect and respond to flare-ups in the future.
In the dark, our visual sense vanishes, and we are unable to detect who or what is around us. We rely on our visual system to help protect us from harm, being scared of the dark is a prepared fear.
Properly trained sushi chefs can detect anisakis larvae, they are grossly visible in the fish.
This is hot off the presses, it's very faint, on the edge of our ability to detect it. It was just discovered in our data from last month.
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- كشفArabic
- откривам, намирамBulgarian
- detectarCatalan, Valencian
- odhalit, najít, objevitCzech
- entdeckenGerman
- detectarSpanish
- tuvastamaEstonian
- huomata, havaitaFinnish
- déceler, détecterFrench
- des-kovrar, des-vel-izarIdo
- individuareItalian
- 検出する, 見付けるJapanese
- 찾다, 탐지하다, 수색하다Korean
- deprehendereLatin
- detecterenDutch
- wykrywać, wykryćPolish
- detectarPortuguese
- выявить, выявлять, обнаруживать, обнаружитьRussian
- otkritiSerbo-Croatian
- upptäckaSwedish
- phát hiệnVietnamese
- 检测Chinese
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