How To Use Detectable In A Sentence

High-frequency waves broadcast by the radar bounce off a person, scanning the in-and-out movement of the chest and more subtle, but also detectable, motion of the heartbeat against the chest wall.
Impacts may create undetectable cracks that, because of the continuous loads, could result in structural damage.
In continuous light, circadian growth rhythms were detectable for up to 2 weeks.
There was no one at the beamdown point, which was close to where the undetectable barrier kept the swamp from encroaching on the habitat, but there was a road nearby that took them to the village in less than half an hour's walk. The Beast That Resembles A Poem(A Handy Resource for Architects,Engineers, and Students)
There has been no detectable change in the patient's condition.

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As expected given low levels of wild codling moths, release of sterile males, and treatment with pheromone, there was no detectable codling moth damage in any orchard.
The voices of the two lawmen were low, undetectable with the exception of Gordon's shouts, but when he realized that his voice was turned up, he would lower it again.
The noise is barely detectable by the human ear.
a detectable note of sarcasm
Supported by new concept and theory, EDT has advantaged superiority in solving undetectable problems.
His eyes were closed, muscles lax, breathing barely detectable.
The lab found no detectable trans fats in any of the samples, with a detection limit of 0.01 percent of the sample weight.
The company claims this process takes just microseconds, making lag undetectable.
She heard another thump, and then the creaking of floorboards, very faint, almost undetectable. LOST SUMMER
He shrugged, and his eyes glimmered slightly with an undetectable sadness.
Also detectable in sheltered spots in woods are the dark green, heart-shaped leaves of sweet violets. Times, Sunday Times
In this procedure part of a gene from the target organism is amplified many millions of times to reach easily detectable levels.
The ingredients were largely the same and the only detectable difference was smell. Times, Sunday Times
At such distances the salt should be so cold it should all have condensed into solid grains, which are undetectable to astrochemists.
The development of leatheriness showed a similar lack of polyuronide depolymerization, with no detectable depolymerization relative to pre-ripening and a greater arrest of depolymerization than in mealy fruit.
An effect on the permeability of other small uncharged solutes such as monohydric alcohols, amides and acetone was not detectable, although there was some slippage of these solutes across water channels.
Anabolic steroids, a controlled substance in the United States since 1988, are not detectable by drug-sniffing canines.
As is apparent from the brief review given above, the relationship between genome size and erythrocyte size is detectable in each of the vertebrate classes, even in the uniquely enucleate case of mammals. A Dubious "Opportunity" for IDers
A distinction was early made between readily traceable sabotage, blowing objects up with a bang, and undetectable sabotage - insaississable was the almost untranslatable French word for it.
Like the first, it seemed to simply fall apart as it fell, dissolving into tiny, indetectable pieces. Objective: Bajor
Shave, haircut, fingernails, haircut and blow-dry, and not a molecule of detectable urine in the atmosphere.
They produce a smell ( barely detectable to humans) that drives away moles. The Sun
Only the more severe grades of asbestosis are detectable by gross examination.
His eyes were closed, muscles lax, breathing barely detectable.
As be the vertically moved vehicle of the elevator has more undetectable effect in daily life.
There were no detectable p53 mutations in genomic DNA from the six children who developed secondary brain tumours.
Prior to ablation a control serum profile showed little if any detectable yolk protein in hemolymph of the shrimp.
They're highly sophisticated infra-red beams, virtually undetectable to the naked eye.
The new tests could help spot the disease eight weeks prior to physical symptoms becoming easily detectable. The Sun
If we then assume that nearly all of any urban effect will be concentrated in the calm nights, which were defined as the calmest third of nights, then overall urbanisation trends of about 0.03 deg C per decade a bit more than a third of 0.078 deg C per decade in minimum temperature should be readily detectable. Parker 2006: An Urban Myth? « Climate Audit
A Christian Darwinist is bound to maintain logically incompatible positions: that evolution is both a tool and an autonomous process, that providence and chance are both ultimately real, that design is potentially detectable and that it is a priori indetectable. The Panda's Thumb: Science and Faith Archives
An often undetectable and frequently fatal abnormal dilatation of a blood vessel in a brain. FAITHLESS: TALES OF TRANSGRESSION
The Ohio class submarines serve the United States Navy as the virtually undetectable undersea launch platforms of intercontinental missiles.
J & J said some of the prefilled syringes containing Invega Sustenna had a crack in the syringe barrel, which isn't detectable by the user because the cracks are covered by labels. J
By metaphase the oscillations may be of such high frequency that they would be difficult to detect, but the lower frequency oscillations early in prometaphase should be detectable by immunofluorescence microscopy and high-speed camera technology. ID-friendly journal paper makes testable predictions
I seem to remember a recent study done of a transiting exoplanet in which emission was sought that may have resulted in detectable auroral-type activity using either XMM-Newton or Chanda. Ozone on Mars: Two Windows Better Than One | Universe Today
With other scents, it might be barely detectable yet it gives the perfume bouquet an air of mystery.
The data show that aggregation will occur in the absence of detectable plasma fibrinogen.
Some individuals with clinical disease have no such antibodies detectable.
Method, and other companies that produced green cleaning products were When testing around a hundred "cosmetic, personal care and household cleaning formulas, [the Association] found that nearly 50\% of them contained detectable levels of 1,4-dioxane, which is known to cause cancer in lab animals. Planetsave
‘You could have fraud on a scale never seen before, and it will be completely undetectable,’ he said.
Harmless and humane, the cats simply don't like the sound, which is undetectable to the human ear.
The singlet is detectable as a quintet at room temperature in methemoglobin with identical spectral features to those of the well characterized tyrosyl radical in photosystem II.
Raman spectroscopy is used to identify certain pigments, such as vermilion and red lead, that are not detectable with FTIR.
It would, by virtue of the fact that it was scientifically detectable, be concrete.
All six genes putatively involved in biosynthetic processes have detectable expression.
If one of the jets happens to point towards Earth, astronomers see a "blazar" - literally, a blaze of radiation at energies all the way up to the highest detectable gamma rays. Physicsworld.com: all content
But dioxin and related toxic chemicals are detectable in the body years after exposure.
A third factor is that subtle effects of preen oil may not be detectable in captive birds.
Use of methamphetamine can cause damage to the brain that is detectable months after the use of the drug.
It works so well that sleeping policemen become barely detectable. Times, Sunday Times
Because the original speaker's words are stored the personal characteristics remain, even the accent is readily detectable in some cases.
Naturally occurring variations in the Earth's magnetic field induce eddy currents in the Earth that are detectable as electric field variations on the surface.
The card has a digital watermark detectable only to electronic cash dispensers.
An anamnestic response to the HBV vaccine challenge was observed in 96. 8% of subjects, including 17/21 (81. 0%) of children with initially undetectable antibodies ( BioMed Central - Latest articles
Any Object we see is Abstract, because it is composed of an infinite number of indefinable, unrecognizable, nonfigurative, shadowy, intangible, imperceptible and undetectable 'points' or 'areas' and all these areas do not, and cannot, allow any human being to perceive them or relate to them in any meaningful manner. Science Blog - Science news straight from the source
The wrist is often the first site of clinically detectable rheumatoid arthritis.
If you didn't look too closely, her terror was almost undetectable. YELLOW BIRD
Cognitive impairment in children may follow milder postpartum depression and may be detectable four years after the resolution of maternal symptoms.
Methanol is great because it ups the alcohol content and also adds a subtle flavour detectable only by the distinguished palate.
However, cystine crystals in the cornea are not usually detectable in the first year.
What we find over and over again is that many mutations to any one component may have a completely indetectable effect on the output. It's more than genes, it's networks and systems - The Panda's Thumb
The additional fact that they can conceal themselves to the point of being virtually indetectable except by the use of instruments makes them one of the most dangerous animals known. The Complete Federation Of The Hub
But Fred and Barney bore a detectable resemblance to Jackie Gleason and Art Carney on "The Honeymooners," with Fred saying yabba dabba doo rather than one of these days. Yabba Dabba Doo! Flintstones Turns 50
(GlcNAcβ1-3) fucitol, was not detectable in whole embryos, mass spectrometry fragmentation and exoglycosidase sensitivity defined a novel glucuronyl trisaccharide as GlcNAcβ1-3 (GlcAβ1-4) fucitol. Journal of Biological Chemistry current issue
Cognitive impairment in children may follow milder postpartum depression and may be detectable four years after the resolution of maternal symptoms.
Suspicions that new and undetectable drugs are being used have grown after samples from scores of racing pigeons in Belgium disappeared.
The noise is barely detectable by the human ear.
The sound is virtually undetectable to the human ear.
The exfoliatory element was so ultrafine as to be barely detectable, but skin felt smooth and moisturised afterwards. Times, Sunday Times
Only neomycin is contained in vaccines in detectable quantities (see table below). Antibiotics
They have a characteristic musty odor that is detectable when large numbers are present or when the bugs are crushed.
They carry mental maps of minefields of undetectable mines.
This could be the earliest detectable sign of coma and impending death. Times, Sunday Times
A new class of genetic markers, microsatellite repeats, was identified in 1989 (Litt and Luty 1989; Tautz 1989; Weber and May 1989); because these sets of tandem repeats of short (either dinucleotide, trinucleotide, or tetranucleotide) DNA sequences are more highly polymorphic and detectable by PCR, microsatellites quickly replaced RFLPs as markers of choice for genetic linkage mapping and furnished the STS markers which facilitated the integration of genetic and physical maps. The Human Genome Project
Children can achieve or re-achieve detectable levels of protective antibodies after revaccination during combination antiretroviral treatment.
Let's say you are six feet tall and weigh 200 pounds and believe that epiphenomenalism is false and that 5+1 = 51 and that tomorrow more than 93 of your ancestors will be reincarnated as bright orange unicorns or bluish centaurs in a parallel universe, and you would love to be a time-traveling psychotic computer program that designs completely undetectable entities. Backing Into an Evidentiary Standard for ID
The extra risk of developing cancer from low doses of ionising radiation is so small that it is undetectable in the population.
James Purnell's sideburns are third favourite, whilst David Miliband's barely detectable bumfluff has slipped to fourth. Alan Johnson quiff tipped to take over as Labour leader
A phosphatase inhibitor, sodium vanadate, reduced the effect of alkaline phosphatase and the p48 band remained undetectable.
It was detected on a routine mammogram and was not detectable by ultrasound.
It will be interesting to see if there is a detectable tactical vote today.
almost undetectable with even the most delicate instruments
Spirometric measurements and maximal mid-expiratory flow rates are accurate and reproducible, because effort variation is detectable from the configuration of the tracings.
No detectable makeup clutters a face that can go steely with the certainty of design convictions.
In reality, only those runners with inadequate, readily detectable techniques of cheating are penalised.
An isolated black hole is, of course, undetectable, except by its gravitational pull - the way it distorts space in its vicinity.
Because all three main clades of bilaterian animals express a let-7 RNA that is temporally regulated, but cnidarian, poriferan and all non-animal species that we analysed do not express a detectable let-7 RNA, we propose that the gene evolved after the divergence of diploblastic and bilaterian animals Teach the Controversy
There's also, correct me if I'm wrong, a slight but detectable element of sadness or longing in the images.
However, within a few hours of smoking marijuana, the amount of THC in the brain falls below the concentration required for detectable psychoactivity. Reuters: Top News
In its early stages, noise-induced hearing loss is detectable by audiometry (hearing testing) and preventable. Durangoherald.com
After the Gulf War he was put in charge of a taskforce code named ‘Al Babel’ to develop stealth technology to make aircraft and missiles undetectable on radar.
By immunofluorescence, beclin-1 staining showed faintly detectable and diffusely distributed in the cytoplasm (regarded as negative) or confined to the perinuclear region as large and brilliant puncta suggestive of macro-aggregate reactivity (regarded as positive). Naturejobs - All Jobs
I lived in a two room plywood-floored apartment often inundated with big hunks of black soot which drifted into the unscreened windows from an absolutely undetectable source.
His eyes met mine in the rearview mirror… and lingered there, casting me a small undetectable smile.
They have an extraordinary capability to taint food where they form compounds with fats which are detectable in parts per billion.
The card has a digital watermark detectable only to electronic cash dispensers.
EMG signals show high amplitude spikes both rostrally and caudally, with no contralateral muscle activity and no detectable rostrocaudal lag at the onset of muscle activity.
The primary test, known as an ANA, looks for unusual antibodies detectable in the blood called antinuclear antibodies, which are able to bind with the nuclei of tissue and organ cells and inflict damage. The Autoimmune Epidemic
Grow small sub-light fast planetsmashers indetectable by humans. Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 10.1 of 31.1
Their results suggest that changes in amount or distribution of nesting habitat should result in detectable changes in murrelet numbers for individual drainages.
All transfectants lacked detectable telomerase activity, showed progressive telomere shortening and ultimately arrested and died.
Scott carefully uncapped the maintenance scope hole, moved aside a neatly inserted and nearly indetectable circle in the wall of the scope hole, inserted a funnel, and began to pour in the mash and pure water that were the base of his recipe. Vulcan’s Glory
Some have had no virus detectable in their bloodstream for close to two years.
The dark matter halo would produce just the right sort of signal, since it’s presumably highly cuspy in the center, leading to high rates of the sorts of interactions which might lead to detectable photons, but only near the center of the galaxy. Dark Matter: Still Dark.
The noise is barely detectable by the human ear.
In overdoses, heroin's presence in the blood and urine is detectable for about 36 hours.
Without faith of some sort, life is a constant bafflement, apparently devoid of any detectable meaning.
Early studies suggest it could still be detectable MONTHS after being taken. The Sun
In doing so, he introduced an almost totally undetectable back door into the system
For instance, amenorrhea, which is when the body fat in women reduces low enough to stop menstrual cycles, is undetectable through BMI and studies have shown that female athletes with amenorrhea and without amenorrhea based on unhealthy versus healthy amounts of body fat score exactly the same on the BMI. The BMI, female athletes, the triad, eating disorders and me
Across the population as a whole it may be detectable, but to an individual a small change to a small risk is beneath the threshold of detection. Times, Sunday Times
Humphrey, who is interested in steganography, has focused his project on how people's e-mail language and styles can include undetectable, embedded messages.
Moreover, cells in anaphase and telophase were rarely detectable.
This could be the earliest detectable sign of coma and impending death. Times, Sunday Times
Urinary bilharziasis has typical ultrasonographic features, but may occur with no morphological lesion detectable on ultrasonography.
Now poems are easily detectable on the page, because their right hand margins aren't justified.
Testosterone supplementation produced lean body mass increases detectable in all body regions.
In the most recent studies, lead was not detectable in most foods and the average dietary intake of lead was about 1 microgram (a microgram is a millionth of a gram) per kilogram of body weight/day. Public Health Statement for Lead
They have an extraordinary capability to taint food where they form compounds with fats which are detectable in parts per billion.
Many RadNet cities have detectable amounts, but mostly they are less than one picocurie per liter. The Goalkeeper
How could this be when, as Ritter says, such efforts would be easily detectable by modern technology?
Analysis of the collected semen samples showed that SIV RNA was detected by day 7 in the control group and reached a peak at day 28 postinfection, while in the Gag/Pol group SIV RNA wasn't detected until day 14, reached a peak at day 21, declined to undetectable levels by day 42 postinfection and remained that way for the duration of the study. Health News from Medical News Today
He didn't hear what the soldier said, it was in a low whisper that was undetectable from his position in the room.
A thousandth of a sievert, which has no detectable effect on health, is called a millisievert. In Japan, Let's Stop Sweating The Small (Nuclear) Stuff
In this procedure part of a gene from the target organism is amplified many millions of times to reach easily detectable levels.
Radioactivity cannot be felt, smelled, seen, or heard directly and is detectable only with the aid of mechanical or electronic devices.
It is probable that dietary recommendations in antenatal clinics occur too late to have detectable effects in the perinatal period.
Patients with undetectable levels of cardiac troponin are classified as low risk and are immediately discharged. Times, Sunday Times
Instead, other possible by-products, such as halogenated quinones, which may be present in treated water at previously undetectable concentrations, are now under suspicion. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
As it was, there was no detectable vibration, making the slide invisible to seismometers.
Alzheimer's disease is characterised by a long preclinical period during which cognitive deficits are detectable.
The sound is virtually undetectable to the human ear.
Distant disease is more likely if the PSA does not fall to undetectable levels after surgery, rises after radiation therapy or cryotherapy, rises within 12 months of any form of treatment or doubles in less than six months.
Because all three main clades of bilaterian animals express a let-7 RNA that is temporally regulated, but cnidarian, poriferan and all non-animal species that we analysed do not express a detectable let-7 RNA, we propose that the gene evolved after the divergence of diploblastic and bilaterian animals Teach the Controversy
At one year, if the patient is clinically and biochemically euthyroid and a thyroid-stimulating antibody level is not detectable, therapy can be discontinued.
The products are commonly mixed with alcohol, have a short duration of action, and are not easily detectable on routine hospital toxicology screens.
We find out the minimum detectable signal power and the produced reference beam output. Several key factors which affect the system characteristics strongly. are pointed out.
The card has a digital watermark detectable only to electronic cash dispensers.
Good adherence to therapy, resulting in undetectable virus loads, will reduce virus transmission within the community.
However the premise that all of life's diversity owing its collective common ancestry (via some blindwatchmaker-type process) to some unknown population (s) of single-celled organisms which just happened to have to ability to imperfectly reproduce, is not empirically detectable. Courting the Theists
Prior to ablation a control serum profile showed little if any detectable yolk protein in hemolymph of the shrimp.
Pre-eclampsia is symptomless in its early stages and at present detectable only by regular checks on the mother's blood pressure and urine.
It is not an easily detectable illness and it is invisible. The Sun
The mean probability of belonging was calculated based on the probability of the individual assignment, which makes the percentage of admixture detectable and visualizes it in circular charts.
a good agent for chemical terrorism should be colorless and odorless and inexpensive and readily available and not detectable until symptoms are experienced
I was beginning to get a little carsick, when we stopped with a slightly, almost undetectable, jerk.
Analysed, the substance was a hitherto undetectable steroid, tetrahydrogestrinone, or THG.
The film print used was nearly free of speckles or nicks; only a very few were detectable.
The card has a digital watermark detectable only to electronic cash dispensers.
All genes are transcribed in taproots while transcription in leaves is low or undetectable.
These include, most importantly, showing the we can detect fluorescence responses in cells to single antidromic stimuli, along with evidence that a cell can in fact produce a detectable response under some behavioral conditions.
The word on the street is the drug dealer is about to import a huge quantity of altered cocaine that is undetectable to drug sniffer dogs.
In such systems, practically undetectable events may spiral into vast and unforeseeable consequences.
What indetectable cosmic tachyon field has caused hour deflation to such a frightening magnitude? Kevynwight Diary Entry
It is also apparent that multiple tenascin isoforms are detectable at the mRNA and protein level.
They noted that if Tyche exists, it should be detectable in the archive of data that was collected by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) telescope.
Sadly, a close examination of this portrait reveals paint-by-numbers outlines faintly detectable behind the color and texture of Callahan's unique baritone.
For a long time England's rugby renaissance seemed timed to coincide with the arrival of Godot on stage, but the improvement detectable in last autumn's Twickenham internationals was again apparent in Cardiff on Friday night, if we ignore the kind of indiscipline that bedevilled Martin Johnson's first year or so in charge. Vince Lombardi and Alex Ferguson are cleverest manipulators | Paul Hayward
The impact on football of the newly-revealed and formerly undetectable drug tetrahydrogestrinone will also be on the agenda along with another 25 cases and issues of doping-related cases from around the world.
Why did you not report that any attempt to reconstitute the country's WMD programmes would be immediately detectable to Western technology?
The replication of chromosomes is the first detectable cytological event in meiosis.
It is also apparent that multiple tenascin isoforms are detectable at the mRNA and protein level.
Alcohol alone, pyrogallol alone, and pargyline alone did not produce detectable TIQ. Alcohol and The Addictive Brain
By metaphase the oscillations may be of such high frequency that they would be difficult to detect, but the lower frequency oscillations early in prometaphase should be detectable by immunofluorescence microscopy and high-speed camera technology. ID-friendly journal paper makes testable predictions
Murder by potassium injection, he reckoned, would be virtually undetectable. COMPULSION
Low levels of hybridization are also detectable in other regions of the spinal cord.
Then, slightly with a barely undetectable motion, she ran her fingertips across his neck.
The sounds emitted may be undetectable to the human ear, which on average can hear between 16 and 16,000 cycles per second.
Economists exert a minor and scarcely detectable influence on the societies in which they live.
These wild oxen appear to have made no detectable contribution to the domestic gene pool; they did not interbreed with their domestic contemporaries.
Methemoglobinemia is detectable by measurement of blood levels of methemoglobin and is manifested clinically as cyanosis and hypoxia.
Mr Ellis was not breathing and no pulse or heartbeat was detectable but mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and heart massage saved him.
And there's another sound, too: a low, whispering rumble, almost undetectable.
Also detectable in sheltered spots in woods are the dark green, heart-shaped leaves of sweet violets. Times, Sunday Times
I was beginning to get a little carsick, when we stopped with a slightly, almost undetectable, jerk.
The air of foreboding detectable in this lyric is emblematic of much of the album.
RESULTS: High sensitivity, detectable limitation of 1.5 ng per ml , good precision , and easy operations.
It is the first positive laboratory marker for acute HCV infection, which becomes detectable in serum usually one to three weeks after infection.
Even if such a phenomenon were to exist, it would generally be considered to be undetectable by available statistical methods.
The earliest detectable evolutionary stage was a hypodiploid clone which, by clustering of the sequencing profiles of geographical "neighbor" segment sequences, appeared to have undergone five major steps of mutation, acquiring many additional focal amplifications and deletions of cancer genes including in one cases, MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians
Your doctor may prescribe an antibiotic to eliminate the bacterial infection that triggered your reactive arthritis if it's still detectable in your body.
Carbon monoxide is undetectable by the human senses: it is colourless, odourless, and tasteless.
European astronomers have discovered a true space oddity: a quasar without a detectable home galaxy.
This contains an invisible watermark ... detectable only to electronic tills and cash dispensers.The company says it should be impossible to copy.
Further, if they are undetectable by their taste, smell, or colour their attractiveness as poisons is enhanced.
Athletes who believe that gene doping is not detectable are in for quite a surprise," said Arne Ljungqvist, chairman of the IOC's medical commission. WADA chief: Anti-doping progress has been a miracle
It can often be dissolved in a drink and is undetectable.
Methemoglobinemia is detectable by measurement of blood levels of methemoglobin and is manifested clinically as cyanosis and hypoxia.
And today the visible inequities and inadequacies of the system that turns young people off politically are compounded: our political punch has been spiked with an undetectable component -- untraceable monies that threaten the very foundation of our democracy: freedom of speech freely shared, and not hidden in seedy recesses of election law. Rizwan A. Rahmani: The Indifference of Younger Voters and Our Imperiled Democracy
Their first impact is to bring an aroma of balsam wood, but when they break down they create the lovely vanilla and cinnamon overtones detectable in some brandies.
Prior to transplantation, patients with detectable serum HBV DNA received lamivudine 100 mg daily.
In addition, a number of these compounds showed detectable triboluminescence only in a small range of environmental gas pressure and low temperature.
Also detectable in sheltered spots in woods are the dark green, heart-shaped leaves of sweet violets. Times, Sunday Times
To speak with greater precision, in "Life Goes to the Movies" three broad notions of film realism are detectable.

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