[ɛɡˌzamɪˈneɪʃn], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a detailed inspection or study
(e.g: an examination of marketing behaviour)

- a formal test of a person's knowledge or proficiency in a subject or skill
(e.g: he scraped through the examinations at the end of his first year)

- the formal questioning of a defendant or witness in court


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Origin:
late Middle English (also in the sense ‘testing (one's conscience) by a standard’): via Old French from Latin examinatio(n-), from examinare ‘weigh, test’ (see examine)