Benjamin H. answered 03/29/19
Practical, Results Oriented Law School Tutor and Practicing Attorney
If I understand your question correctly, you are asking what constitutes a "search" for Fourth Amendment purposes. A "search" is an invasion of a reasonable expectation of privacy, which has been defined to be an expectation of privacy society accepts.
For example, people have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the home, so if the police enter the home, it will be considered a search.