{
    "term": "detection",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "the process of discovering or noticing something, especially something that is not easy to see, hear, etc.; the fact of being discovered or noticed",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "crime prevention and detection"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Last year the detection rate for car theft was just 13 per cent."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Many problems, however, escape detection."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Early detection of cancers is vitally important."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The latest figures show falling crime detection rates."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Their prey can sometimes escape detection by remaining still."
                },
                {
                    "text": "radiation detection equipment"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the quest to improve breast cancer detection"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["early", "crime", "fraud"],
                "verb + detection": ["avoid", "escape", "evade"],
                "detection + noun": ["rate", "method", "system"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈtekʃn/",
                "audio": "de/detection/detection__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈtekʃn/",
                "audio": "de/detection/detection__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 15th cent. (in the sense ‘revelation of what is concealed’): from late Latin detectio(n-), from Latin detegere ‘uncover’, from de- (expressing reversal) + tegere ‘to cover’."
}