Detention is the degree to which suspended solids are removed from a liquid.
The aerated pond was designed to provide 3.5 days' detention for the waste.
Many lagoons do not provide adequate treatment time, and there is often sludge buildupdue to lack of detention or insufficient oxygen transfer to the system.
Detention is the degree to which suspended solids are removed from a liquid.
Examples of 'detention' in a sentence
detention
The dreams of other migrants have ended in grim Libyan detention centres.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Under the plan Italy will open 16 new detention centres to hold illegal migrants before they are deported.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Remember waiting for a school detention to begin?
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The alternative for those who leave juvenile detention is to end up on the streets.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
He pledged throughout his presidential campaign to close the detention facility.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The pair are being held in an immigration detention centre.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
This may be true in the case of measures such as long periods of detention without trial.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
That included two months in a youth detention centre.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The pair were released under home detention curfews and will have to wear electronic tags.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Much of the book is set in an immigration detention centre.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The detention pending trial is particularly disturbing.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Only prisoners who pass a strict risk assessment can be released on home detention curfew.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
G4S already runs six prisons and two immigration detention centres.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Nine people were arrested and two more thrown into administrative detention without trial.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
On the contrary the case for his continued detention in custody appeared to have been a strong one.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Those who are turned back in Serbia are being taken to detention camps.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The suspect remains in detention in Kandahar.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Troops will also be used in 16 cities to guard immigrant detention centres.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
At one stage, more than 100 detainees were refusing to eat in protest at being held at the detention facility.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
In other languages
detention
British English: detention /dɪˈtɛnʃən/ NOUN
Detention is the arrest or imprisonment of someone, especially for political reasons.
After 17 months in detention, he was eventually put on trial.
American English: detention
Arabic: حَجْز
Brazilian Portuguese: detenção
Chinese: 拘留
Croatian: pritvor
Czech: vazba trestní
Danish: tilbageholdelse
Dutch: detentie
European Spanish: detención prisión
Finnish: vankeus
French: détention
German: Inhaftierung
Greek: κράτηση
Italian: detenzione
Japanese: 拘留
Korean: 구류
Norwegian: anholdelse
Polish: areszt
European Portuguese: detenção
Romanian: detenție
Russian: арест
Latin American Spanish: arresto
Swedish: kvarsittning
Thai: การควบคุมตัว
Turkish: gözaltına alma
Ukrainian: утримання під вартою
Vietnamese: sự giam cầm
All related terms of 'detention'
detention camp
a compound where prisoners are detained temporarily, as pending determination of their legal status under immigration laws
detention home
a place where juvenile offenders or delinquents are held in custody , esp. temporarily pending disposition of their cases by the juvenile court
detention center
A detention center is a sort of prison , for example, a place where people who have entered a country illegally are kept while a decision is made about what to do with them.
detention centre
A detention centre is a sort of prison , for example a place where people who have entered a country illegally are kept while a decision is made about what to do with them.
preventive detention
the holding of someone in jail or in an institution because he or she is regarded as a danger to the community