Usually means: Identifying the presence or absence.
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  1. detecting: Merriam-Webster
  2. detecting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. detecting: Vocabulary.com
  4. Detecting, detecting: Wordnik
  5. detecting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. detecting: Wiktionary
  7. Detecting, detecting: Dictionary.com
  8. detecting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Detecting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. detecting: Rhymezone
  11. Detecting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. detecting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. detecting: FreeDictionary.org
  14. detecting: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. detecting: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. detecting: Legal dictionary

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  1. detecting: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (detecting)

▸ noun:  An act of detection.

Similar:
detection, detective work, sleuthing, police investigation, noticing, identifying, diagnostication, retection, catch, deprehension, more...

Opposite:
undetectable, miss, overlook, ignore, unaware

Types:
radar, sonar, laser, infrared, ultrasound, X-ray, gamma ray, radio wave, microwave, more...

Phrases:
metal detecting, Methods of detecting exoplanets, money detecting, detecting device, method for detecting the neural signal, more...

Adjectives:
error, worth, metal, double, little, early, first, further, private, crap, multiple

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Similar:
detection, detective work, sleuthing, police investigation, noticing, identifying, diagnostication, retection, catch, deprehension, more...

Opposite:
undetectable, miss, overlook, ignore, unaware

Types:
radar, sonar, laser, infrared, ultrasound, X-ray, gamma ray, radio wave, microwave, more...

Phrases:
metal detecting, Methods of detecting exoplanets, money detecting, detecting device, method for detecting the neural signal, more...

Adjectives:
error, worth, metal, double, little, early, first, further, private, crap, multiple

Colors:
    red,     blue,     green,     yellow,     orange, more...



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