OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 30297

detection

/dɪˈtɛk.ʃən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
detección
The act or process of detecting, uncovering, or finding out, the discovery of something new, hidden, or disguised.
In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection…
“Why should Eldridge commit murder?[…]There was only one possible motive—namely, he wished to avoid detection as James Selby of Anaconda Ltd.[…]”
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