UNDETECTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does undetected mean? 

• UNDETECTED (adjective)
  The adjective UNDETECTED has 1 sense:

1. not perceived or discerned

  Familiarity information: UNDETECTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNDETECTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not perceived or discerned

Context example:

she looked around to be sure her faux pas was undetected

Similar:

undiscovered (not discovered)

Antonym:

detected (perceived or discerned)

 Context examples 

One in every 50 people over the age of 40 has early signs of glaucoma, although the vast majority go undetected at this stage.

(Air Pollution Can Trigger Glaucoma, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Because advanced cancers are difficult to completely remove with surgery, doctors typically give chemotherapy to try to kill undetected cancer cells left behind and prevent the cancer from coming back.

(Scientists develop potential new approach to stop cancer metastasis, National Institutes of Health)

A rare, immune-mediated disorder characterized by cerebellar degeneration due to the presence of an often undetected malignancy (usually carcinoma or lymphoma) in an anatomic site other than the cerebellum.

(Paraneoplastic Cerebellar Degeneration, NCI Thesaurus)

Images obtained by NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft reveal previously undetected small fault scarps— cliff-like landforms that resemble stair steps.

(The Incredible Shrinking Mercury is Active After All, NASA)

The authors concluded that the most probable explanation for these shallower craters is the accumulation of previously undetected thick ice deposits on both worlds.

(The Moon and Mercury May Have Thick Ice Deposits, NASA)

There's an even greater likelihood of developing "masked hypertension," a condition that often goes undetected during routine doctor's visits, researchers found.

(High Blood Pressure Liked to Long Hours on Job, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But he is dead, and I thought to remain undetected; and now you come along and expose me.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Three undetected murders in one year won’t do, Lestrade.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)