EXAMINATION as NOUN

  1. Meaning
    • the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes)

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    Hypernyms(s) examination is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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  2. Meaning
    • the act of giving students or candidates a test (as by questions) to determine what they know or have learned

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  3. Meaning
    • examination of conscience (as done daily by Jesuits)

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  4. Meaning
    • formal systematic questioning

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  5. Meaning
    • a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge

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    • when the test was stolen the professor had to make a new set of questions

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