Synonyms:
detection, detecting, detective_work, sleuthing
Meaning: a police investigation to determine the perpetrator; "detection is hard on the feet"
Usage examples
His rapture on detecting the law was unbounded, and he breaks out into an exulting rhapsody:--
'Yesterday, only yesterday,' replied Margaret, detecting the jealousy which prompted the inquiry.
Hence the lower surface generally affords to entomologists the more useful character for detecting the affinities of the various species.