ex·am·i·na·tion /ɪgˌzæməˈneʃən/
  考試,考查,檢查,審查
  ex·am·i·na·tion /ɪgˌzæməˈneʃən/ 名詞
  檢查,診查,調查,考試,診察
  examination
  *檢查
  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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  examination
       n 1: the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes)
            [syn: scrutiny]
       2: a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or
          knowledge; "when the test was stolen the professor had to
          make a new set of questions" [syn: exam, test]
       3: formal systematic questioning [syn: interrogation, interrogatory]
       4: examination of conscience (as done daily by Jesuits) [syn: examen]
       5: the act of giving students or candidates a test (as by
          questions) to determine what they know or have learned
          [syn: testing]