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What is the noun for detectability?

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detective
  1. (law enforcement) A police officer who looks for evidence as part of solving a crime; an investigator.
  2. A person employed to find information not otherwise available to the public.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The detective provided indisputable evidence that Thelma was having an affair with the landscape architect who designed a lily pond in their backyard.”
      “We were puzzled by your remark that you had the standard and there is no other design, so we did a little detective work.”
      “He moved into television production and, after a couple of stinkers, he hit paydirt with a detective show with a difference.”
detection
  1. The act of detecting or sensing something; discovering something that was hidden or disguised.
  2. The finding out of a constituent, a signal, an agent or the like, mostly by means of a specific device or method.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “This medium-sized telescope has made possible the detection of new moons around Uranus and Neptune.”
      “The detection of minute particles in a liquid does not only depend upon their size but also on the relative refractive index of the suspended matter and the liquid.”
      “He maintained a home life that involved minimal contact with his family to minimize the detection of his crimes.”
detectability
  1. (uncountable) The state of being detectable
  2. (countable) The extent to which something is detectable
  3. Examples:
    1. “The technique consists of establishing an invertibility-based fault detectability condition for the diagnostic model.”
      “By relying on camouflage, the military resort to the same artifice that enables many prey animals to enhance their chances of survival by minimizing detectability.”
      “We also conducted field tests of unattached transmitters to determine how antenna position and submersion in water and mud affected radio detectability and signal strength.”
detector
  1. A device capable of registering a specific substance or physical phenomenon, and that optionally sounds an alarm or triggers a warning.
    1. An indicator showing the depth of the water in a boiler.
    2. A galvanometer, usually portable, for indicating the direction of a current.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “A detector detects a digital sample of the recorded analog signals as corresponding to one of the maximum likelihood states.”
      “Once upon a time you could drive around with a radar detector so you knew where the radar traps were.”
      “The absence of a smoke detector in the room has prompted an immediate investigation.”
detectivity
  1. The (relative) effectiveness of a detector
detecter
  1. Alternative form of detector
detecting
detectabilities
  1. plural of detectability
detectivities
  1. plural of detectivity
detectings
detections
  1. plural of detection
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  3. Examples:
    1. “This year, detections and arrests are up, crime is down and we are forging ahead.”
      “Sophos believes that mass-mailing viruses can easily become over-reported, especially in statistics derived from email gateway detections alone.”
      “I assume that they look out for things like the flyback of the electron beam to sync their detections.”
detectives
  1. plural of detective
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  3. Examples:
    1. “A gang of thugs who lay in wait before attacking a man with a baseball bat and an iron bar could strike again, say detectives.”
      “Only one man Robert Morris, 49, has been charged because detectives hit a wall of silence.”
      “The police in his books are definitely the good guys, despite a trend for corrupt fictional detectives.”
detecters
  1. plural of detecter
detectors
  1. plural of detector
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The company's growing cadre of engineers also built nuclear-waste detectors and industrial floor waxers.”
      “The RHIC detectors will soon be able to record energetic photons emitted in quark-antiquark interactions in the plasma phase.”
      “Other security items in high demand are bullet-proof vests, 9mm handguns that use rubber bullets and walk-through metal detectors.”
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