detect

English

Etymology

From Latin detectus, perfect passive participle of detegere (“to uncover or disclose”), from de- + tegere (“to cover”); see tegument, tile, thatch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛkt

Verb

detect (third-person singular simple present detects, present participle detecting, simple past and past participle detected)

1. to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing

Derived terms

• detection
• detective
• detector

Translations

to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing

Arabic: كشف (ar) (kashafa) Bosnian: otkriti (bs) Bulgarian: откривам (bg), намирам (bg) Catalan: detectar (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 察覺 (zh), 察觉 (zh) (chájué), 發覺 (zh), 发觉 (zh) (fājué), 覺察 (zh), 觉察 (zh) (juéchá) Czech: odhalit (cs), objevit (cs), najít (cs) Dutch: detecteren (nl) Estonian: tuvastama (et) Finnish: havaita (fi), huomata (fi)

French: déceler (fr), détecter (fr) German: entdecken (de) Ido: des-kovrar, des-vel-izar Japanese: 検出する (ja) (kenshutsu-suru), 見付ける (ja) (mitsukeru) Polish: wykryć (pl), wykrywać (pl) Russian: обнаруживать (ru) (obnarúživat'), обнаружить (ru) (obnarúžit'), выявлять (ru) (vyjavlját'), выявить (ru) (výjavit') Spanish: detectar (es) Swedish: upptäcka (sv)

See also

• discover
• find
• stumble upon

External links

• detect in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• detect in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911