signal detection

1. 1.

   the detection that a signal is being received

   Synonymsdetection

   Broaderreception

Questions about signal detection

What does signal detection mean?

signal detection means "the detection that a signal is being received".

What is another word for signal detection?

Close synonyms include detection. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is signal detection a common word?

signal detection is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.