DETECTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does detected mean? 

• DETECTED (adjective)
  The adjective DETECTED has 2 senses:

1. perceived or discerned

2. perceived with the mind

  Familiarity information: DETECTED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DETECTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Perceived or discerned

Context example:

the detected micrometeoritic material

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Perceived with the mind

Context example:

he winced at the detected flicker of irony in her voice

Similar:

noticed (being perceived or observed)

 Context examples 

The altered genes that cause each type can be detected with a blood test.

(MEN syndrome, NCI Dictionary)

No visible light was detected with the X-ray source, a fact that most likely rules out the possibility that it is also a supernova.

(NASA Satellite Spots a Mystery That's Gone in a Flash, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

New kinds of organic compounds, the ingredients of amino acids, have been detected in the plumes bursting from Saturn's moon Enceladus.

(New Organic Compounds Found in Enceladus Ice Grains, NASA)

The newly-detected protostars are located primarily in the southern areas.

(SOFIA Reveals How the Swan Nebula Hatched, NASA)

A characteristic of a medicinal product, specifying that its most predominant agreeable savor detected by the unified sensation of taste and olfactory receptors resembles buttermint.

(Buttermint Flavor, NCI Thesaurus)

While Ahuna Mons may have erupted liquid water in the past, Dawn has detected water in the present.

(Ceres' Geological Activity, Ice Revealed in New Research, NASA)

Vaterite was often associated with outer space and had been detected in planetary objects in the Solar System and meteorites.

(Rare mineral discovered in plants for first time, University of Cambridge)

Neuroendocrine tumor cells take up the radioactive metaiodobenzylguanidine and are detected by a scanner.

(Metaiodobenzylguanidine scan, NCI Dictionary)

A radiologic finding that is detected with frontal chest X-ray or chest CT scan.

(Bat Wing Pulmonary Opacities, NCI Thesaurus)

A characteristic of a medicinal product, specifying that its most predominant agreeable savor detected by the unified sensation of taste and olfactory receptors resembles menthol.

(Menthol Flavor, NCI Thesaurus)