- 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
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- avoid
- escape
- evade
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- 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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