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Examination   /ɪgzˌæmənˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Examination

noun
1.
The act of examining something closely (as for mistakes).  Synonym: scrutiny.
2.
A set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge.  Synonyms: exam, test.
3.
Formal systematic questioning.  Synonyms: interrogation, interrogatory.
4.
A detailed inspection of your conscience (as done daily by Jesuits).  Synonym: examen.
5.
The act of giving students or candidates a test (as by questions) to determine what they know or have learned.  Synonym: testing.



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"Examination" Quotes from Famous Books



... course, and John was soon undergoing cross-examination. He proved to be the cousin of Mrs. Hannah Peters' first husband who was drowned on the Grand Banks fifteen or sixteen years before. "John-ee" was, like so many of his kind, a bit shaky on names and dates but strong on generalities. However, everybody except ...
— Galusha the Magnificent • Joseph C. Lincoln

... the Sutrakara contends that the Self consisting of bliss is the highest Self 'on account of multiplication.'— The section which begins with the words,'This is an examination of bliss,' and terminates with the sloka, 'from whence all speech turns back' (Taitt. Up. II, 8), arrives at bliss, supreme and not to be surpassed, by successively multiplying inferior stages of bliss by a hundred; now such supreme bliss cannot possibly belong to the individual ...
— The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja - Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 • Trans. George Thibaut

... processes in order to obtain trustworthy results; and though the trials with bichromate of potash give the most reliable information of any single test, they should be supplemented by the subsidiary tests already alluded to, and also by a chemical examination, in order to obtain a knowledge, not merely of the wood strength, but also of the general nature of the extract. An adulteration with molasses or glucose can be best determined by fermentation in comparison with a pure sample. Mineral ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889 • Various

... from immediately attracting observation. Moreover, the lantern remained covered by a slide until you had taken your places, and there was no further reason to apprehend that you would institute any examination ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller

... England, and the disregard of it by the State as a means of forming good or bad citizens, and miserable or happy men, private schools long afforded a notable example. Although any man who had proved his unfitness for any other occupation in life, was free, without examination or qualification, to open a school anywhere; although preparation for the functions he undertook, was required in the surgeon who assisted to bring a boy into the world, or might one day assist, perhaps, to send him out of it; in ...
— The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby • Charles Dickens


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