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non-detection

non-detection is the alternative form of nondetection.

Meaning of nondetection

Noun

nondetection (countable and uncountable, plural nondetections)

  1. A failure to detect; a negative result
    • Nondetection or nonnotification of cancer has been shown to be most common among patients older than 75 years at the time of diagnosis.1986, Journal of the National Cancer Institute: JNCI, volume 77, page 661

Forms of non-detection

pluralnon-detections

Questions about non-detection

What is non-detection the alternative form of?
Non-detection is the alternative form of nondetection.

Words near non-detection in the dictionary

  1. non-destructive read
  2. non-destructive reads
  3. non-detachable
  4. non-detectable
  5. non-detected
  6. non-detection
  7. non-determinism
  8. non-determinisms
  9. non-deterministic
  10. non-diabetic
  11. non-diagnostic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: non-detection (page history and authors); nondetection (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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