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Definition of Detecting

1. Noun. A police investigation to determine the perpetrator. "Detection is hard on the feet"

Definition of Detecting

1. Verb. (present participle of detect) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Detecting

1. detect [v] - See also: detect

Lexicographical Neighbors of Detecting

Literary usage of Detecting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1854)
"Observations upon a General Method for detecting the Organic Alkaloids in Cases ... The method which I now propose for detecting the alkaloids in suspected ..."

2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1865)
"On Methods of detecting Changes on the Moon's Surface. By WE BIKT, FRAS The author commenced by alluding to the theories that had been submitted for ..."

3. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1854)
"ON THE MEAN'S OF detecting THE PRESENCE OF CHICORY IN COFFEE. ... have been indicated, in different works, for detecting the addition of roasted chicory to ..."

4. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1896)
"The first results were so interesting that it occurred to us at once that this method might be useful in detecting the adulteration of butter with ..."

5. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1840)
"MODE OF detecting ADULTERATION IN FLOUR. It is stated in a London journal, that an ingenious and scientific gentleman in Paris, ..."

6. The Dictionary of English History by Sidney Low, Frederick Sanders Pulling (1884)
"Two years later Walsingham was sent on a mission to Scotland, and subsequently had the satisfaction of detecting Babington's conspiracy and of implicating ..."

7. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1917)
"Read's Test for detecting Colour in Tea.1—This test has the advantages of simplicity and ease of manipulation as well as being capable of detecting smaller ..."

8. A Compendium of the Course of Chemical Instruction in the Medical Department by Robert Hare (1836)
"Of the Means of detecting Arsenic, in Cases where poisoning is suspected by it. In respect to arsenic, the most important subject of attention is the means ..."

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