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# detectable

«detectable» in Mova's school dictionary: **Able to be noticed or found, especially with tests or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (detectable); opposite undetectable

### meaning for a pupil

Able to be noticed or found, especially with tests or instruments. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/detectable/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science: a detectable amount, a detectable change in temperature. In health: detectable in a blood test. In formal and exam voice: «a barely detectable difference».

### examples

- There was a detectable smell of gas, so we left. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/detectable/#x1)
- The change in weight was barely detectable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/detectable/#x2)
- The virus was detectable in the test. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/detectable/#x3)
- The sound is not detectable by human ears. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/detectable/#x4)
- The earthquake was detectable hundreds of miles away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/detectable/#x5)
- Is there any detectable pattern in the results? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/detectable/#x6)

### note

Spelling -able (not -ible). Opposite: undetectable. In science, «not detectable» does not always mean zero; it may be too small for the tool to measure.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «detectable» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/detectable/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.