| Library / English Dictionary |
DETECTED
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Perceived with the mind
Example:
he winced at the detected flicker of irony in her voice
Classified under:
Similar:
noticed (being perceived or observed)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Perceived or discerned
Example:
the detected micrometeoritic material
Classified under:
Similar:
perceived (detected by means of the senses)
perceived; sensed (detected by instinct or inference rather than by recognized perceptual cues)
heard (detected or perceived by the sense of hearing)
Antonym:
undetected (not perceived or discerned)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb detect
Context examples:
A characteristic of a medicinal product, specifying that its most predominant agreeable savor detected by the unified sensation of taste and olfactory receptors resembles butter pecan.
(Butter Pecan Flavor, NCI Thesaurus)
In normal tissues, this mRNA is expressed only in testis, whereas it is detected in a range of different tumor types such as bladder, breast, lung, liver, and colon.
(Acrosin Binding Protein, NCI Thesaurus/LocusLink)
This tumor is most easily detected on MRI.
(Brain Stem Astrocytoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A small amount of radioactive material is injected into a blood vessel and travels through the bloodstream; it collects in the bones and is detected by a scanner.
(Bone scan, NCI Dictionary)
Instead, extra copies of chromosome 18 are often detected. — 2004
(Blastoid Follicular Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Enhanced expression of cyclin D1 protein has also been detected in parathyroid adenomas due to a translocation, t(11;11)(q13;p15), resulting in fusion of BCL1 with the parathyroid hormone enhancer.
(BCL1 Oncogene, NCI Thesaurus)
The Resource implements methods that allow maximal retention of animals when an infectious agent is detected in a barrier room.
(Barrier Animal Facility Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)
Once the mass has reached the size of a small garden pea, it can be detected by palpation.
(Breast Lump, NCI Thesaurus)
The main conclusion is that, if phosphine is detected in a nearby, rocky planet, that planet must be harboring life of some kind.
(Poisonous Earthly Molecule May Be Sign of Extraterrestrial Life, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
They say its strong magnetic field likely led to its being detected by a large radio-telescope in New Mexico known as the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA).
(Astronomers Discover New Planet Not Orbiting Any Star, VOA)
