She had escaped detection somehow.
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Detection
//dɪˈtek.ʃən//
Synonyms for "detection" (69 found)
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3 entriesTranslations
38 translations across 19 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- откриване noun (act of detecting or sensing something)
- разкриване noun (act of detecting or sensing something)
Catalan
1 entries- detecció noun (act of detecting or sensing something)
Finnish
2 entries- havaitseminen noun (act of detecting or sensing something)
- löytäminen noun (act of detecting or sensing something)
French
2 entries- détection noun (act of detecting or sensing something)
- détection noun (the finding out of a constituent, a signal, an agent or the like)
German
1 entries- Detektion noun (act of detecting or sensing something)
Greek
1 entries- ανίχνευση noun (act of detecting or sensing something)
Indonesian
2 entries- deteksi noun (act of detecting or sensing something)
- deteksi noun (the finding out of a constituent, a signal, an agent or the like)
Irish
2 entries- brathadóireacht noun (act of detecting or sensing something)
- lorgaireacht noun (act of detecting or sensing something)
Italian
4 entries- detezione noun (the finding out of a constituent, a signal, an agent or the like)
- identificazione noun (act of detecting or sensing something)
- investigazione noun (act of detecting or sensing something)
- rilevamento noun (act of detecting or sensing something)
Korean
2 entries- 수색 noun (act of detecting or sensing something)
- 탐지 noun (act of detecting or sensing something)
Latin
1 entries- detectio noun (act of detecting or sensing something)
Occitan
1 entries- deteccion noun (act of detecting or sensing something)
Persian
1 entries- شناسایی noun (act of detecting or sensing something)
Polish
3 entries- detekcja noun (act of detecting or sensing something)
- wykrycie noun (act of detecting or sensing something)
- wykrywanie noun (act of detecting or sensing something)
Portuguese
4 entries- detecção noun (act of detecting or sensing something)
- detecção noun (the finding out of a constituent, a signal, an agent or the like)
- deteção noun (act of detecting or sensing something)
- deteção noun (the finding out of a constituent, a signal, an agent or the like)
Romanian
1 entries- detecție noun (act of detecting or sensing something)
Russian
3 entries- выявле́ние noun (act of detecting or sensing something)
- детекти́рование noun (the finding out of a constituent, a signal, an agent or the like)
- обнаруже́ние noun (act of detecting or sensing something)
Spanish
2 entries- detección noun (act of detecting or sensing something)
- detección noun (the finding out of a constituent, a signal, an agent or the like)
Swedish
1 entries- fynd noun (act of detecting or sensing something)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
I'm testing whether the language detection works again.
Source: tatoeba (3289035)
In March 1999, Marcy and Butler announced the detection of the first true other "solar system" in which they found evidence of 3 planets orbiting a single star. The star is called Upsilon Andromedae.
Source: tatoeba (3961322)
The primary object of an efficient police is the prevention of crime: the next that of detection and punishment of offenders if crime is committed. To these ends all the efforts of police must be directed. The protection of life and property, the preservation of public tranquillity, and the absence of crime, will alone prove whether those efforts have been successful and whether the objects for which the police were appointed have been attained.
Source: tatoeba (4538048)
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