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单词 detection
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detection

noun
 
/dɪˈtekʃn/
/dɪˈtekʃn/
[uncountable]
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  1. the process of discovering or noticing something, especially something that is not easy to see, hear, etc.; the fact of being discovered or noticed
    • crime prevention and detection
    • Last year the detection rate for car theft was just 13 per cent.
    • Many problems, however, escape detection.
    • Early detection of cancers is vitally important.
    Extra Examples
    • The latest figures show falling crime detection rates.
    • Their prey can sometimes escape detection by remaining still.
    • radiation detection equipment
    • the quest to improve breast cancer detection
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • early
    • crime
    • fraud
    verb + detection
    • avoid
    • escape
    • evade
    detection + noun
    • rate
    • method
    • system
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    Word Originlate 15th cent. (in the sense ‘revelation of what is concealed’): from late Latin detectio(n-), from Latin detegere ‘uncover’, from de- (expressing reversal) + tegere ‘to cover’.
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