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"early detection can often lead to a cure"nounthe perception that something has occurred or some state exists
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nounthe detection that a signal is being received
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"detection is hard on the feet"nouna police investigation to determine the perpetrator
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- secret designed to elude detection
- hidden designed to elude detection
- stealing avoiding detection by moving carefully
- stealth avoiding detection by moving carefully
- detection the detection that a signal is being received
- infiltration a process in which individuals (or small groups) penetrate an area (especially the military penetration of enemy positions without detection)
- parity (computer science) a bit that is used in an error detection procedure in which a 0 or 1 is added to each group of bits so that it will have either an odd number of 1's or an even number of 1's; e.g., if the parity is odd then any group of bits that arrives with an even number of 1's must contain an error
- human chorionic gonadotropin hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta; detection in the urine and serum is the basis for one kind of pregnancy test
- ship-towed long-range acoustic detection system a shipboard system consisting of an acoustic detection system that is towed behind the ship
- electronic reconnaissance the detection and identification and evaluation and location of foreign electromagnetic radiations (other than radioactive)