Definitions for detect
dɪˈtɛktde·tect

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.3 / 3 votes

1. detectverb

   to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing

2. Etymology: From detectus, perfect passive participle of detegere, from de- + tegere; see tegument, tile, thatch

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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.

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1. 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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1. 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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Detectadjective

   detected

2. 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

3. Detectverb

   to inform against; to accuse

4. Etymology: [L. detectus, p. p. of detegere to uncover, detect; de + tegere to cover. See Tegument.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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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British National Corpus

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   Rank popularity for the word 'detect' in Verbs Frequency: #526

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of detect in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of detect in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of detect in a Sentence

1. Merlin Sheldrake:

   The human sense of smell is extraordinary. Our eyes can distinguish several million colours, our ears can distinguish half a million tones, but our noses can distinguish well over a trillion different odours. Humans can detect virtually all volatile chemicals ever tested.

2. Bill Gates:

   What we don't know is,( if) we go slightly back to normal, which activities create the risk of a rebound ? we need to put in place a very dense testing regime so you would detect that rebound going back into exponential growth very quickly and not wait for the ICUs to fill up and there to be a lot of deaths. If you see the hot spot, you kind of understand the activities causing that.

3. Laurent Chapon:

   The idea is essentially like a CT scanner where you would take an image of a person, a three-dimensional image of a person and you can slice through it to see the different organs, we... shine very intense light through (the scroll) and then detect on the other side a number of two-dimensional images. From that we reconstruct a three-dimensional volume of the object... to actually read the text in a non-destructive manner.

4. Robert Cohen:

   That’s why it is important to have those medications prescribed by a health care provider who will be following along closely enough to detect that and determine when changes are needed.

5. Henry David Thoreau, Walden:

   Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=detect
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Detect
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=detect
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detect
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/detect
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=detect