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DETECTION, n. The act of detecting; discovery of a person or thing attempted to be concealed; as the detection of a thief or burglarian; the detection of fraud or forgery; the detection of artifice, device or a plot.
2. Discovery of any thing before hidden, or unknown.
The sea and rivers are instrumental to the detection of amber and other fossils, by washing away the earth that concealed them.

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