Word: detect
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rocket reportedly carried two satellites on a dual-purpose mission: to detect and track an Aries rocket launched an hour and a half later from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, and to test a system for destroying enemy satellites. Both tests were a success, the Pentagon said...
...Airport. A stethoscope-like device that can pick up the munching sounds of insects as they feed inside fruits and grains is being tested at a USDA laboratory in ) Gainesville, Fla. Not all methods are mechanical. In New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, beagles have been trained to detect contraband flora. Jackpot, J.F.K.'s first beagle, has sniffed out oranges, papayas and two 10- lb. mangoes -- as well as salami, ham, cheese, live birds and a can of lime- scented shaving cream...
...motion inside. Just as a train whistle is higher in pitch as it approaches than when it recedes, radio waves also vary in frequency according to direction of motion. Using the radio telescope like a police-radar detector, the astronomers measured the movement within the cloud. "We didn't detect any motion in the outer, cooler regions," reports Wilking. "It was as we probed deeper and deeper that we began to see evidence of gas falling inward...
...team painstakingly swept 120,000 linear miles of ocean with magnetometers, devices that detect irregularities in the earth's magnetic field--anomalies caused by, among other things, iron cannons, armor or anchors. They used side-scan and sub-bottom sonar and even commissioned an aerial survey, but the search did not yield a verifiable Atocha remnant. Says Fay Feild, an engineer and consultant to Treasure Salvors, who designed a special magnetometer for Fisher: "With a magnetometer, even in a limited area, only one in 100 'hits' has anything to do with a wreck. With a side- scanner...
Since that loss, each time I take my daily stroll through the Boston streets, I can detect Celtic grins all around...