detection
noun /dɪˈtekʃn/
/dɪˈtekʃn/
[uncountable]- the process of discovering or noticing something, especially something that is not easy to see, hear, etc.; the fact of being discovered or noticed
侦查；探测；察觉；发现 - crime prevention and detection
犯罪的预防和侦查 - Last year the detection rate for car theft was just 13 per cent.
去年，汽车盗窃的破案率仅为13%。 - Many problems, however, escape detection.
然而许多问题却未被察觉。 - Early detection of cancers is vitally important.
癌症的早期查出是极为重要的。
- The latest figures show falling crime detection rates.
最新的数字显示破案率在下降。 - Their prey can sometimes escape detection by remaining still.
有时他们的猎物会静止不动而不被发现。 - radiation detection equipment
放射物检测设备 - the quest to improve breast cancer detection
改进乳腺癌检测方法的探索
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- early
- crime
- fraud
- …
- avoid
- escape
- evade
- …
- rate
- method
- system
- …
词源late 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’. - crime prevention and detection