Detection

The act of detecting the laying open what was concealed or hidden discovery as the detection of a thief the detection of fraud forgery or a plot...

Detective

Fitted for or skilled in detecting employed in detecting crime or criminals as a detective officer...

Detectable

Capable of being detected or found out as parties not detectable...

detective

detective : a person engaged or employed in detecting lawbreakers or in getting information that is not readily or publicly accessible [a police ] [hired a private ] ...

Detecter

One who or that which detects or brings to light one who finds out what another attempts to conceal a detector...

private detective

private detective : private investigator ...

Abarnare [fr. abarian, Ang.-Sax., denudo, detego, Lat.], to lay bare discover, detect. Hence, 'bere theof, a detected or convicted thief; 'bere morth, a detected homicide. Also to detect and discover any acret crime to a magistrate, Ancient Laws and Institutes of England; Leg. Canuti, c. 104.Abarnare, means to detect or disclose a secret crime, to bring to judgment, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 2....

Land-reeve

Land-reeve, a person whose business is to overlook certain parts of a farm or estate; to attend not only to the woods and hedge-timber, but also to the state of the fences, gates, buildings, private roads, drift-ways, and water-courses; and likewise to the stocking of commons, and encroachment of every kind, as well as to prevent or detect waste, and spoil in general, whether by the tenants or others; and to report the same to the manager or land-steward.Means a person charged with (1) overseeing certain parts of a farm or estate (2) attending to the timber, fences, gates, buildings, private roads, and water-courses, (3) stocking the commons, (4) watering for encroachments of all kinds, (5) preventing and detecting waste and spoliation by tenants and others, and (6) reporting on findings to the manger or land steward, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 884....

parity check

The act or process of testing whether a byte or other data structure has an even or odd number of bits set to the value of 1 it is used primarily to detect errors in data especially in memory banks or in data transmitted over a communications line The parity can be changed by assigning one bit in each data structure as the parity bit so that the total number of bits set to the value of 1 is odd odd parity or even even parity If parity is used for error checking the writing and reading systems must first agree on which type of parity odd or even to use if the reading system detects a deviation from the agreed parity it signals an error to be handled by the error handling processes of the system...

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