detectable

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
detect/dɪˈtekt/

▶verb

• 1 discover or identify the presence or existence of.

• 2 discover or investigate (a crime or its perpetrators).

• 3 discern (something intangible or barely perceptible).

– derivatives
detectable adjective,
detectably adverb,
detection noun.

– origin ME: from L. detect-, detegere ‘uncover’ from de- (expressing reversal) + tegere ‘to cover’.