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detection Physics the act or process of extracting information, esp at audio or video frequencies, from an electromagnetic wave detection [di′tek·shən] (communications) The recovery of information from an electrical or electromagnetic signal. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The machinery it has set up for the detection of crime is miserably ineffective--and yet only invent a moral epigram, saying that it works well, and you blind everybody to its blunders from that moment. No: whatever might have been the general's crimes, he had certainly too much wit to let them sue for detection. The certainty of immediate detection if he fired, flashed across his mind even in the midst of his fury; and he beat it twice with all the force he could summon, upon the upturned face that almost touched his own. |
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