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indetectable

indetectable adjective: not detectable.

Adjective

indetectable (comparative more indetectable, superlative most indetectable)

  1. Not detectable.
    • Being off kilter is crucial to detecting frame dragging: Within the plane, dragging would produce only indetectable changes in the disk's speed.1997 November 7, James Glanz, “ASTROPHYSICS: X-rays Hint at Space Pirouette”, in Science, volume 278, number 5340, →DOI, pages 1012–1013
    • We first isolated the 12-kD swC99 band, which is nearly indetectable in cells transfected with vector alone (Fig. 5 G).1999 October 22, Robert Vassar et al., “{Beta}-Secretase Cleavage of Alzheimer's Amyloid Precursor Protein by the Transmembrane Aspartic Protease BACE”, in Science, volume 286, number 5440, →DOI...
    Synonyms:
    undetectable

Synonyms of indetectable

Forms of indetectable

comparativemore indetectable
superlativemost indetectable

Origin of indetectable

From in- + detectable.

Questions about indetectable

What does indetectable mean?
Indetectable means not detectable.
What part of speech is indetectable?
Indetectable is an adjective.

Words near indetectable in the dictionary

  1. indestructible
  2. indestructibleness
  3. indestructibly
  4. indestructive
  5. indet.
  6. indetectable
  7. indetectably
  8. indetectible
  9. indeterminable
  10. indeterminableness
  11. indeterminables

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