0 past simple and past participle of detect
1 to notice something that is partly hidden or not clear, or to discover something, especially using a special method:
The alarm should go off automatically as soon as smoke is detected.
Many serious illnesses can be nipped in the bud if they are detected early enough.
In the future, cars equipped with on-board computers will be able to detect and avoid traffic jams automatically.
I could detect subtle variances in fragrance as we strolled through the garden.
This is being investigated for traits in rice such as grain width and protein contents where significant genotype by environment interaction has been detected.
Once determined that the intersected point belongs to visible surfaces, it is necessary to determine if the point detected is within the parallelepiped boundaries.
Within the shaded region, targets are completely detected and localised by the sensor.
