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detecting

nounverbattested in dialogue

An act of detection.

noun

  1. 1

    An act of detection.

    Sensations then, are not perceivings, observings or findings; they are not detectings, scannings or inspectings; they are not apprehendings, cognisings, intuitings or knowings.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of detectpresent participle and gerund of detect

Forms

plural
detectings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).