0 present 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.
Detecting and describing preventive intervention effects in a universal school-based randomized trial targeting delinquent and violent behavior.
A coalescent-based method for detecting recombination from gene sequences.
The method described here works well for detecting 2-deg pulses at 4-deg eccentricity in a steady surround.
