Synonyms for Detection
dɪˈtɛk ʃənde·tec·tion

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1. detection, sensingnoun

   the perception that something has occurred or some state exists

   "early detection can often lead to a cure"

   Synonyms:
   detective work, spying, sleuthing, sensing, detecting, detection, signal detection, catching, espial, perception, spotting

2. detection, catching, espial, spying, spottingnoun

   the act of detecting something; catching sight of something

   Synonyms:
   detective work, spying, staining, sleuthing, sensing, detecting, detection, signal detection, catching, espial, maculation, undercover work, spotting, contracting

3. signal detection, detectionnoun

   the detection that a signal is being received

   Synonyms:
   detective work, detection, sleuthing, sensing, detecting, signal detection, catching, espial, spying, spotting

4. detection, detecting, detective work, sleuthingnoun

   a police investigation to determine the perpetrator

   "detection is hard on the feet"

   Synonyms:
   detective work, spying, sleuthing, sensing, detecting, detection, signal detection, catching, espial, spotting

Matched Categories

1. • Perception
   • Police Work
   • Reception

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1. detectionnoun

   Synonyms:
   discovery

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1. List of paraphrases for "detection":

   detecting, detect, discovery, screening, sensing, detections, identification, detector, mine-detection, testing, law, detected, diagnosis, reconnaisance, reconnaissance, warning, discover, detectability

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How to use Detection in a sentence?

1. Emma Fletcher:

   Our data suggests that there's room for improvement in fraud detection and prevention.

2. John Miller:

   Everything that this individual does, every technological piece that they add in to avoid detection, is going to leave a different kind of fingerprint ... that are going to help identify this person.

3. Hulya Gulbahar:

   In a majority of Turkey's female abuse cases, the perpetrators receive mitigations in their sentences due to court's detection of consent granted by the victim, in some cases, wearing a miniskirt or some cleavage got the woman's rapist mitigation in his punishment, while in some cases the consent was attached to her wearing red.

4. Ivan Rusyn:

   We can’t draw to many conclusions about potential health effects because the levels that are being reported are below detection limits, but the health thresholds are also below the detection limit. So there are additional or different methods that are more sensitive, they take more time, and they are more elaborate, and we’re hoping that the agencies will use some of those methods, as well, in the future.

5. Mario Damasso:

   In my opinion, the detection is particularly interesting because the signal in the radial velocities has a low amplitude and a long period, therefore in principle not easy to detect and confirm with a single technique, we are exploring the consequences of a longer-term spectroscopic follow-up in another work we hope to publish soon.