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forensic

adj
/fəˈɹɛn.zɪk/

Etymology

From Latin forēnsis (“of the forum, public”) + -ic, from forum (“forum, marketplace”).

Definitions

  1. Relating to the use of science and technology in the investigation and establishment of…

    Relating to the use of science and technology in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law.

    • Fire investigators […] and forensic chemists are combing through fire sites [the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing], interviewing witnesses, and following leads.

  2. Relating to, or appropriate for, courts of law

    Relating to, or appropriate for, courts of law; suitable or adapted to legal argumentation.

    • Varus trusted implicitly […] to the interest which they affected to take in the forensic eloquence of their conquerors.
    • Mr. Philips’ incredulous sniff was a triumph of forensic skill.

  3. Precise, thorough, or highly meticulous, by analogy with a scientific legal investigation.

    • A forensic account of history
    • With forensic precision
    • It [the judiciary] had been the forum before which the highest forensic discussions had been held, […]
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Relating to forms of disability associated with criminal risk.

      • a forensic learning disability
      • patients with forensic needs

    2. Relating to, or used in, debate or argument.

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Derived

antiforensic, bioforensic, cyberforensic, forensic accountancy, forensic accountant, forensic accounting, forensically, forensicate, forensic biology, forensic engineering, forensicist, forensic linguistics, forensic medicine, forensics, forensic science, paleoforensic, phytoforensic, unforensic

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for forensic. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA