as in discovery
the act or process of sighting or learning the existence of something for the first time
my detection of the scent of baked apple pie led me to the kitchen
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Recent Examples of detection
Days later, investigators were still trying to trace exactly how Mr. Jabbar had managed to descend into such a murderous state without detection.
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Edgar Sandoval, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2025
The person detection and tracking worked well in my tests.
—Simon Hill, WIRED, 3 Jan. 2025
Plus, there’s fall detection, crash detection, and emergency SOS.
—Megan Schaltegger, People.com, 1 Jan. 2025
Using correlation IDs, AI models can analyze logs from multiple microservices, accelerating issue detection and resolution.
—Koushik Sundar, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
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Edgar Sandoval, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2025
The person detection and tracking worked well in my tests.
—Simon Hill, WIRED, 3 Jan. 2025
Plus, there’s fall detection, crash detection, and emergency SOS.
—Megan Schaltegger, People.com, 1 Jan. 2025
Using correlation IDs, AI models can analyze logs from multiple microservices, accelerating issue detection and resolution.
—Koushik Sundar, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
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“Detection.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/detection. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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