Detecting
[di'tektiŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Detect
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Examples
- The thermometer can also be used in detecting adulterants. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Edison gave him one quick, searching glance and, detecting a bluff, replied in an offhand manner: There's a five-pound bottle in No. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I cannot remember detecting gratitude in his face. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Koch, whose success in detecting the microbes which cause consumption and cholera has made him famous the world over. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Even those of us who regard ourselves as active in mothering the process and alert in detecting its growth are by no means constantly aware of any great change. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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