- the act of detecting.
- the fact of being detected.
- discovery, as of error or crime: chance detection of smuggling.
- Telecommunications.
- rectification of alternating signal currents in a radio receiver.
- the conversion of an alternating, modulated carrier wave or current into a direct, pulsating current equivalent to the transmitted information-bearing signal.
- the act of discovering or the fact of being discovered
- the act or process of extracting information, esp at audio or video frequencies, from an electromagnetic wave
