examination
The act of examining.
Other meanings
Particularly, an inspection by a medical professional to establish the extent and nature of any sickness or injury.
A formal test involving answering written or oral questions under a time constraint and usually without access to textbooks; typically, a large, written test administered to high school and college students covering course material studied in a semester.
Related words
- examinational
- examinationless
- microexamination
- neuroexamination
- nonexamination
- preexamination
- teleexamination
- matriculation examination
- state examination
- oral examination
- bar examination
- clinical examination
Word history
From Latin "exāminātiō".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “examination” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.