Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DE-TEC'TION, n.

1. 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. – Woodward.