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English
Etymology
From Middle English examinacioun, from Old French examinacion, from Latin exāminātiō.
Morphologically examine + -ation
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪɡˌzæmɪˈneɪʃən/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
- Hyphenation: ex‧am‧i‧na‧tion
Noun
examination (countable and uncountable, plural examinations)
- The act of examining.
2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:[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, […].
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: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).
- Particularly, an inspection by a medical professional to establish the extent and nature of any sickness or injury.
- (education) 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.
- Interrogation, particularly by a lawyer in court or during discovery.
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Translations
act of examining
- Arabic: اِخْتِبَار m (iḵtibār), اِمْتِحَان (ar) m (imtiḥān)
- Egyptian Arabic: إختبار m (eḵtebār), إمتحان m (emteḥān)
- Armenian: քննություն (hy) (kʻnnutʻyun), փորձաքննություն (hy) (pʻorjakʻnnutʻyun)
- Azerbaijani: müayinə (az), yoxlama (az), təftiş (az)
- Bengali: ইমতেহান (bn) (imtehan)
- Bulgarian: изсле́дване (bg) n (izslédvane)
- Finnish: tutkimus (fi), tutkiminen (fi), tarkastelu (fi)
- French: examen (fr) m
- Georgian: გამოკვლევა (gamoḳvleva)
- German: Prüfung (de) f, Untersuchung (de) f
- Greek:
- Ancient: σκέψις f (sképsis)
- Hindi: परीक्षण (hi) (pareekshan)
- Hungarian: vizsgálat (hu), ellenőrzés (hu), kivizsgálás (hu), bevizsgálás, átvizsgálás (hu)
- Ingrian: tutkimus
- Malayalam: പരിശോധന (ml) (pariśōdhana)
- Maori: mātaitanga
- Persian: بَرْرِسی (fa) (barresi)
- Portuguese: exame (pt) m
- Romanian: examinare (ro) f, examen (ro) n
- Russian: прове́рка (ru) f (provérka), иссле́дование (ru) n (isslédovanije), рассмотре́ние (ru) n (rassmotrénije)
- Slovak: obhliadka f, prehliadka f, skúmanie n
- Spanish: examen (es) m, examinación f (dated)
- Thai: ไต่สวน (th) (dtài-sǔuan)
- Vietnamese: kiểm tra (vi)
- Walloon: corwaitaedje (wa) m, scarwaitaedje m
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inspection by a doctor
- Arabic: فَحْص (ar) m (faḥṣ)
- Armenian: զննում (hy) (znnum), բուժզննում (hy) (bužznnum) (medical)
- Azerbaijani: müayinə (az)
- Belarusian: агля́д m (ahljád)
- Bulgarian: пре́глед (bg) m (prégled)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 檢查/检查 (zh) (jiǎnchá)
- Czech: vyšetření (cs) n
- Danish: undersøgelse c
- Dutch: onderzoek (nl) n
- Finnish: tutkimus (fi), tarkastus (fi)
- French: examen (fr) m
- Georgian: გამოკვლევა (gamoḳvleva), გასინჯვა (gasinǯva)
- German: Untersuchung (de) f
- Greek: εξέταση (el) f (exétasi)
- Hindi: परीक्षण (hi) m (parīkṣaṇ)
- Hungarian: vizsgálat (hu)
- Icelandic: skoðun (is) f
- Indonesian: pemeriksaan (id)
- Italian: esame (it) m, visita (it) f
- Japanese: 診察 (ja) (しんさつ, shinsatsu), 検査 (ja) (けんさ, kensa), 診療 (ja) (しんりょう, shinryō) (examination and treatment)
- Kazakh: қарау (kk) (qarau)
- Khmer: ការពិនិត្យ (kaa pinɨt)
- Korean: 진찰(診察) (ko) (jinchal), 검사(檢査) (ko) (geomsa)
- Kyrgyz: кароо (ky) (karoo)
- Macedonian: преглед m (pregled)
- Malay: pemeriksaan
- Malayalam: പരിശോധന (ml) (pariśōdhana)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: undersøkelse m
- Persian: مُعایِنِه (fa) (mo'âyene)
- Polish: badanie (pl) n, oględziny (pl) pl
- Portuguese: exame (pt) m
- Romanian: examinare (ro) f, examen medical (ro) n, consult medical n
- Russian: осмо́тр (ru) m (osmótr), медосмо́тр (ru) m (medosmótr) (medical examination)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: пре́глед m, прије́глед m
- Roman: prégled (sh) m, prijégled m
- Slovak: vyšetrenie n, prehliadka f
- Slovene: pregled m
- Spanish: examen (es) m, examinación f (dated)
- Swahili: ukaguzi (sw)
- Swedish: undersökning (sv) c
- Tajik: муоина (muoyina)
- Turkish: muayene (tr)
- Ukrainian: о́гляд (uk) m (óhljad)
- Uzbek: koʻrik (uz)
- Walloon: vizite (wa) f
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