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retection

retection noun: disclosure or detection of something concealed.

Noun

retection (countable and uncountable, plural retections)

  1. (obsolete) Disclosure or detection of something concealed.
  2. Detection through a concealing layer. (Note: this use is somewhat specific to electrical engineering and related fields investigating the uses of T-Ray Sensing.)
    • Special issue: T-Ray Imaging, Sensing and Retection2007 August, Proceedings of the IEEE, volume 95, number 8

Forms of retection

pluralretections

Origin of retection

From Latin retectio, retectionem (“discovery, uncovering”).

Questions about retection

What does retection mean?
Retection means disclosure or detection of something concealed.
What part of speech is retection?
Retection is a noun.
What is the plural of retection?
The plural of retection is retections.

Words near retection in the dictionary

  1. retease
  2. reteased
  3. reteases
  4. reteasing
  5. retecious
  6. retection
  7. retections
  8. retee
  9. reteed
  10. reteeing
  11. retees

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