detect
Usage
What are other ways to say detect?
To detect implies becoming aware of something that had been obscure, secret, or concealed: to detect a flaw in reasoning. To ascertain is to verify facts by inquiry or analysis: to ascertain the truth about an event. To learn is to add to one's knowledge or information: to learn a language. The verb discover is used with objective clauses as a synonym of learn in order to suggest that the new information acquired is surprising to the learner: I discovered that she had been married before.
Example Sentences
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"The deformation we detected during the initial analysis of the Cassini mission data could have been compatible with a global ocean, but now we know that isn't the full story."
From Science Daily
One reason: Even Amazon’s AI systems for detecting fake reviews—and the actions it takes against fake review brokers—can’t stop the way honest but biased humans are reviewing items.
"Once detected, treatment was started immediately and is continuing. At present, the children are stable," he said.
From BBC
That data is understood to have been on systems operated on the Home Office's behalf by the Foreign Office, whose staff detected the incident.
From BBC
By incorporating their relativistic model into modern gravitational waveform calculations, the researchers demonstrate that such dark matter structures would leave distinct, measurable signatures in the signals detected by future observatories.
From Science Daily
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
