examination

CEFRB1

/ɪɡˌzæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/

noun

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noun
A careful inspection or a formal test.
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Extra detail
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.

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Extra meanings

Particularly, an inspection by a medical professional to establish the extent and nature of any sickness or injury.
The act of examining.
Interrogation, particularly by a lawyer in court or during discovery.

In context

You should have known better than to take an examination without preparing for it.
In a child with infant dyschezia, physical examination and stool examination are normal.
The question of the plausibility of the counter-factual is seen as key in all three discussions of allohistorical fiction (as it is in Demandt's and Ferguson's examinations of allohistory) (cf. Rodiek 25–26; Ritter 15–16; Helbig 32).

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In a child with infant dyschezia, physical examination and stool examination are normal.
2002, Paul Hyman, “Infant Dyschezia: Looking out for Number Two”, in International Foundation for Gastrointestinal Disorders, number 823
[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].
2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2020
The question of the plausibility of the counter-factual is seen as key in all three discussions of allohistorical fiction (as it is in Demandt's and Ferguson's examinations of allohistory) (cf. Rodiek 25–26; Ritter 15–16; Helbig 32).
2014 October 14, David Malcolm, “The Great War Re-Remembered: Allohistory and Allohistorical Fiction”, in Martin Löschnigg, Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz, editors, The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG., →ISBN, page 173

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From Middle English examinacioun, from Old French examinacion, from Latin exāminātiō. Morphologically examine + -ation.