Word: detectible
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dissection of 5,000 stars in the Northern Hemisphere that are candidates for being Nemesis was already under way, and there was no need for Gehrels' help. So far, Muller has photographed nearly all the target stars once and is preparing to shoot them again in an attempt to detect some telltale movement...
...they cannot comprehend analogies or metaphors or even understand conversation beyond the five-year-old level. Finally, machines can rarely tell why a student is experiencing difficulty in learning and understanding (although computers can test students and keep detailed record of their mistakes in order to help the teacher detect learning problems...
...work crews but the major construction must be done by citizens of the host country. Though fine in principle, that led to some sticky situations. In 1983 Soviet workers halted work for several weeks on the U.S. embassy to protest American use of an X-ray machine to detect structural flaws. The Soviets said it was hazardous to workers' health, but it became obvious that they were more concerned with the machine's real function: locating eavesdropping bugs that workers might be secreting in the walls...
...Americans, 90% of them gay men or drug abusers. But the CDC says that at least 119 Americans have contracted the lethal AIDS from blood transfusions. With death lurking in the national blood supply, the Federal Government and five private drug companies began developing a method to detect evidence of AIDS infection in donated blood. The first such tests have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, and last week test kits from Abbott Laboratories were shipped to blood banks around the country and overseas...
...bombers and cruise missiles, which, because they fly relatively low, could not be zapped from the heavens. After the Soviets shifted their main emphasis to ballistic missiles, the U.S. let its once extensive air- defense system deteriorate. Today it could not fight off a bomber attack, or even detect a cruise-missile assault. (It has trouble enough with drug- running airplanes.) A Star Wars system would have to be accompanied by a strengthening of air defenses that James Schlesinger estimates would add $50 billion a year to whatever might be spent on Star Wars...