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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They carry no electric charge and have almost no mass, which makes them incredibly difficult to detect.
From Science Daily
The researchers also detected modest differences in the gut microbiome.
From Science Daily
"No radiological consequence expected and no additional impact detected at FEP itself," it added.
From BBC
The facility is protected by air defenses, but they failed to detect the drone, and no sirens sounded to warn soldiers to take cover, according to one of the officials.
Such circuits could include miniature interferometers capable of detecting extremely small electromagnetic fields, opening new possibilities for precision sensing technologies.
From Science Daily
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