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 Ex·am·i·na·tion n.
 1. The act of examining, or state of being examined; a careful search, investigation, or inquiry; scrutiny by study or experiment.
 2. A process prescribed or assigned for testing qualification; as, the examination of a student, or of a candidate for admission to the bar or the ministry.
    He neglected the studies, . . . stood low at the examinations.   --Macaulay.
 Examination in chief, or  Direct examination Law, that examination which is made of a witness by a party calling him.
 Cross-examination, that made by the opposite party.
 Reëxamination, or Re-direct examination, Law that questioning of a witness at trial made by the party calling the witness, after, and upon matters arising out of, the cross-examination; also called informally re-direct.
 Syn: -- Search; inquiry; investigation; research; scrutiny; inquisition; inspection; exploration.
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