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Detected. [Obs.] Fabyan.

Capable of being detected or found out; as, parties not detectable. "Errors detectible at a glance." Latham.

One who, or that which, detects or brings to light; one who finds out what another attempts to conceal; a detector.

The act of detecting; the laying open what was concealed or hidden; discovery; as, the detection of a thief; the detection of fraud, forgery, or a plot. Such secrets of guilt are never from detection. D. Webster.

Fitted for, or skilled in, detecting; employed in detecting crime or criminals; as, a detective officer.

One who, or that which, detects; a detecter. Shak. A deathbed's detector of the heart. Young. Bank-note detector, a publication containing a description of genuine and counterfeit bank notes, designed to enable persons to discriminate between them. -- Detector l. See under Lock.

A bar, connected with a switch, longer than the distance between any two consecutive wheels of a train (45 to 50 feet), laid inside a rail and operated by the wheels so that the switch cannot be thrown until all the train is past the switch.

Examination of the abdomen to detect abdominal disease.

A self-restoring coherer, as a microphonic detector.

The application of a knowledge of bacteria for their detection and identification, as in the examination of polluted water.

Fig.: A spy or detective; a constable.

n; a bandit; one who sets law at defiance; a professional assassin or murderer. Safe from detection, seize the unwary prey. And stab, like bravoes, all who come this way. Churchill.

ing one on one's way, to accompany, guide, or attend one. -- To bring out, to expose; to detect; to bring to light from concealment. -- To bring over. (a) To fetch or bear across. (b) To convert by persuasion or other means; to cause to change sides or an opinion. -- To bring to. (a) To resuscitate; to bring back to…

An instrument for detecting and measuring the amount of carbon which is present, or more esp. the amount of carbon dioxide, by its action on limewater or by other means.

It is also widely used either in aqueous solution or as test paper (Congo paper) for the detection of free acid, which turns it blue.

Any device for detecting the presence of electric waves. The influence of electric waves on the resistance of a particular kind of electric circuit, on the magnetization of steel, on the polarization of an electrolytic cell, or on the electric condition of a vacuum has been applied in the various cymoscopes.…

own the meaning of; to make out or read, as words badly written or partly obliterated; to detect; to reveal; to unfold.

induce a suspected person to commit an offense under circumstances that will lead to his detection.

To detect; to discover; to find out. The motion . . . are to be deprehended by experience. Bacon.

a thing existing already, but not perceived or known; to find; to ascertain; to espy; to detect. Some to discover islands far away. Shak.