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Rejection vs Retection - What's the difference?

rejection | retection |

As nouns the difference between rejection and retection

is that rejection is the act of rejecting while retection is disclosure or detection of something concealed.

rejection

English

(wikipedia rejection)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of rejecting.
  • The state of being rejected.
  • (sports) a blocked shot

    • Derived terms

    * rejection letter

    retection

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Disclosure or detection of something concealed.

    • Etymology 2

    In 2002 a paper to be titled "Powder detection using THz imaging" (by Wang, Ferguson, Manella, Abbot and Zhang) 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)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.)
  • *Proceedings of the IEEE, Volume 95, Number 8, August 2007
  • *:Special issue: T-Ray Imaging, Sensing and Retection