Sentence examples for it was designed to detect from inspiring English sources

It was designed to detect and characterise large numbers of worlds, giving astronomers statistics about how common the various sorts of planets might be in the galaxy.

The crucial innovation of the SNO was that it was designed to detect neutrinos of any flavour, by measuring the "neutral current" interaction, in which the neutrino breaks up a nucleus, but no electron (or muon or tau) is produced.

Had we done this for our airport security system, we might have realized that it was designed to detect guns and bombs but not to stop suicide pilots armed with knives and box cutters.

One of Nasa's four Great Observatories (other siblings were Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, and the Hubble space telescope), Spitzer was different in that it was designed to detect the Universe's infrared radiation, in which cooler things like planets appear relatively brighter, and hot things like stars relatively dimmer.

The original sampling strategy for this survey assumed a 50% within herd prevalence as it was designed to detect foot-and-mouth disease with a 95% herd level sensitivity.

It was designed to detect 949 genes, including 126 different viral sequences 18, 19, 18 of which correspond to highly pathogenic viral agents (Table 1).

It is designed to detect the low-frequency radio pulses emitted by lightning strikes.

Each sensor is tuned to a specific wavelength of light based on the molecule it is designed to detect.

And the Web site (citizencorps.gov/tips) says that it is designed to detect unusual activity in "public places" or "public areas".

It is designed to detect and reconstruct events in which B hadrons are produced.

It is designed to detect the low-energy electrons selected by the KATRIN main spectrometer.