DetectionDetection2331-2076Scientific Research Publishing10.4236/detection.2014.22002Detection-44601Short ReportChemistry&Materials Science What Is Detection? enQian** E-mail:qians@ihep.ac.cn, qiansenfay@gmail.com;The Institute of the High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China;08042014020279December 1st, 2013January 2nd, 2014 January 10th, 2014© Copyright 2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. 2014This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

“Detection”, literally, in English, is the extraction of particular information from a larger stream of information without specific cooperation from or synchronization with the sender. In Chinese, detection means inspection and measurement of the object or phenomenon, which couldn’t be directly observed, with apparatus, such as detecting space and the depth of the sea.

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