Wiktionary

retection

English

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Etymology

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From Latin retectio, retectionem (“discovery, uncovering”).[1]

Noun

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retection (countable and uncountable, plural retections)

  1. (obsolete) Disclosure or detection of something concealed.
  2. (engineering) Detection through a concealing layer. (Note: this use is somewhat specific to electrical engineering and related fields investigating the uses of T-Ray Sensing.)
    • 2007 August, Proceedings of the IEEE, volume 95, number 8:
      Special issue: T-Ray Imaging, Sensing and Retection

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  1. ^ It has been claimed that in 2002 a paper to be titled "Powder detection using THz imaging" (by Wang, Ferguson, Manella, Abbot and Zhang), the title was mistakenly published as "Powder retection using THz imaging" in OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics, Proceedings of Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, vol. 73. (recounted in Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 95, No. 8 August 2007, page 1511, Scanning the Issue: T-Ray Imaging, Sensing and Retection by Derek Abbott and Xi-Cheng Zhang), and that this influenced some modern uses of the word.

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