detection
catching espial
spying spotting | the act of detecting something, catching sight of something |
detection detecting
detective work
sleuthing | a police investigation to determine the perpetrator, detection is hard on the feet |
explosive detection system
EDS | a rapid automatic system to detect plastic explosives in passengers' luggage using Xay technology and computers, designed for use in airports |
explosive trace detection
ETD | a system for screening luggage in airports, an agent passes a swab around or inside luggage and then runs the swab through a machine that can detect trace amounts of explosives |
radar
microwave radar
radio detection and ranging
radiolocation | measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects |
| ship-towed longange acoustic detection system | a shipboard system consisting of an acoustic detection system that is towed behind the ship |
| probability | the quality of being probable, a probable event or the most probable event, for a while mutiny seemed a probability, going by past experience there was a high probability that the visitors were lost |
| probability chance | a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur, a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible, the probability that an unbiased coin will fall with the head up is . |
conditional probability
contingent probability | the probability that an event will occur given that one or more other events have occurred |
| joint probability | the probability of two events occurring together |
detection
sensing | the perception that something has occurred or some state exists, early detection can often lead to a cure |
probability theory
theory of probability | the branch of applied mathematics that deals with probabilities |
signal detection
detection | the detection that a signal is being received |
| probability theorist | a mathematician who specializes in probability theory |
probably
likely
in all likelihood
in all probability
belike | with considerable certainty, without much doubt, He is probably out of the country, in all likelihood we are headed for war |