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Seeing vs Detection - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between seeing and detection

is that seeing is the action of the verb to see; eyesight while detection is the act of detecting or sensing something; discovering something that was hidden or disguised.

As a verb seeing

is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective seeing

is having vision; not blind.

As a conjunction seeing

is inasmuch as; in view of the fact that.

seeing

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(head)
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
    • , volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.}}
    Derived terms
    * all-seeing * seeing to * seeing-eye dog

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having vision; not blind.
    • Synonyms
    * sighted

    Noun

  • The action of the verb to see ; eyesight.
  • * 2004 , Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus (page 73)
    • To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings , hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires
  • (astronomy) The movement or distortion of a telescopic image as a result of turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere.

    • Etymology 2

    Probably an elision of "seeing that" or "seeing as".

    Conjunction

    (English Conjunctions)
  • (slang) Inasmuch as; in view of the fact that.
    • Seeing the boss wasn't around, we took it easy.

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    Anagrams

    * * English words not following the I before E except after C rule

    detection

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of detecting or sensing something; discovering something that was hidden or disguised.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.}}
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    • , title=Death Walks in Eastrepps , chapter=10/6 citation , passage=“Why should Eldridge commit murder?
  • The finding out of a constituent, a signal, an agent or the like, mostly by means of a specific device or method.