# detection

Pronunciation: say "di-TEK-shuhn" US/UK /dɪˈtɛk.ʃən/, AUS /dɪˈtek.ʃən/

## Noun

1. The act or process of uncovering or finding out something new, hidden, or disguised.
   - Simple: The act of finding something that is hidden, new, or hard to notice.
   - _Improved detection methods allow scientists to identify diseases at much earlier stages._
   - _The detection of the fraud took investigators several months of careful work._
2. The act or process of finding an electrical signal within a carrier wave.
   - Simple: The act of picking out a signal from the wave that carries it.
   - _The receiver's detection of the modulated signal depends on a stable carrier frequency._
   - _Engineers improved detection by adding a more sensitive diode to the circuit._

## Noun

3. The public exposure of concealed information about a crime or heresy; an accusation. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: The act of making someone's hidden crime or wrongdoing known to others.

## Origin

A learned borrowing from Latin "dētēctiōnem"; by surface analysis it can be understood as "detect" plus the suffix "-ion".

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/detection (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).