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undetectability

undetectability noun: the quality of being impossible or difficult to detect.

Noun

undetectability (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being impossible or difficult to detect.
    • In particular, embedding capacity, robustness, and undetectability are mutually conflicting and cannot all be achieved by the same algorithm.2006, David Salomon, Coding for Data and Computer Communications, →ISBN, page 345
    • The highest degrees of anonymity are undetectability and unobservability.2008, Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second ..., →ISBN

Origin of undetectability

From un- + detect + -ability.

Questions about undetectability

What does undetectability mean?
Undetectability means the quality of being impossible or difficult to detect.
What part of speech is undetectability?
Undetectability is a noun.

Words near undetectability in the dictionary

  1. undetached
  2. undetailed
  3. undetainable
  4. undetained
  5. undetd
  6. undetectability
  7. undetectable
  8. undetectably
  9. undetected
  10. undetectible
  11. undeteriorated

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