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Retention vs Retection - What's the difference?

retention | retection |

In obsolete terms the difference between retention and retection

is that retention is a place of custody or confinement while retection is disclosure or detection of something concealed.

As nouns the difference between retention and retection

is that retention is the act of retaining or something retained while retection is disclosure or detection of something concealed.

retention

English

(wikipedia retention)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of retaining or something retained
  • * 1599 , , II. iv. 95:
    • No woman's heart / So big, to hold so much; they lack retention .
  • The act or power of remembering things
  • A memory; what is retained in the mind
  • (medicine) The involuntary withholding of urine and faeces
  • (obsolete) That which contains something, as a tablet; a means of preserving impressions.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • (obsolete) The act of withholding; restraint; reserve.
  • * 1599 , , V. i. 79:
    • His life I gave him, and did thereto add / My love without retention or restraint,
  • (obsolete) A place of custody or confinement.
  • (legal) The right to withhold a debt, or of retaining property until a debt due to the person claiming the right is duly paid; a lien.
    • (Erskine)
    (Craig)

    Related terms

    * retentive * retentiveness * retentivity * retentor

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    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