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detection

noun as in discovery

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Increasingly, criminals actually lease their malware from a group that guarantees their malware against detection.

But if by chance you are a prison guard, avoiding detection is much easier.

If detection lag time is 10 days, then that, plus a healthy margin, should be the “deferral” period.

Every page would carry its own proof of transgression, and thus its own guarantee of detection.

And while detection is part of the battle, prevention is by far more important.

In tuberculous disease the tubercle bacillus is present in the discharge, but its detection offers some difficulties.

Upon ulcerated surfaces it is often mingled with other spiral micro-organisms, which adds to the difficulty of its detection.

Few men or women could tell him a deliberate lie without its instant detection.

Larkins, enjoying the detection, put his hands on his knees and looked wickedly up in the old man's face to see what was coming.

The circumstances that usually bring about detection are doctors and nurses and neighbors.

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On this page you'll find 24 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to detection, such as: disclosure, apprehension, espial, exposure, find, and revelation.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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