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diagnostic
Word definitions for diagnostic in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s (adjective and noun), from Greek diagnostikos "able to distinguish," from diagnostos , verbal adjective from diagignoskein (see diagnosis ). Related: Diagnostics .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN assessment ▪ This deliberate gathering of detailed information for teaching is termed diagnostic assessment . category ▪ Analysis of variance and the Newman-Keuls procedure were applied to measure the statistical ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 of, or relating to diagnosis 2 characteristic of a particular disease alt. 1 of, or relating to diagnosis 2 characteristic of a particular disease n. 1 a technique etc. used in medical diagnosis 2 (context computing English) Any tool or technique used ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Diagnostic \Di`ag*nos"tic\, n. The mark or symptom by which one disease is known or distinguished from others.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. concerned with diagnosis; used for furthering diagnosis; "a diagnostic clinic"; "a diagnostic reading test"; "diagnostic information" characteristic or indicative of e.g. a disease; "a diagnostic sign of yellow fever"; "diagnostic information"; "a ...
Usage examples of diagnostic.
The Llano complex, in turn, is lumped into a large group of archeological remains that also includes younger artifact assemblages characterized by projectile points similar in form but lacking the diagnostic flutes.
Lieutenant Barclay is checking the modifications to the diagnostic biofilter, and he believes the transporter will be ready for you within the next couple hours.
Every monitor brightened as the screens began to crawl with diagnostics as the system rebooted, then the comps did a systems check and began to scroll command codes.
IN SPACE, the Kite resumed control over its comps once more and began a diagnostic check.
Hansa cyberneticists, and I ran all the diagnostics I could get my hands on, but to no effect.
Though ornithological writers are almost unanimous in distinguishing the buzzards as a group from the eagles, the grounds usually assigned for their separation are but slight, and the diagnostic character that can be best trusted is probably that in the former the bill is decurved from the base, while in the latter it is for about a third of its length straight.
However, my specialties include meal preparation, catalytic fuel conversion, enzymatic composition breakdown, chemical diagnostic programming, and bacterial composting acceleration.
The terms were so general, they were collections of so many traits, that they said very little in any useful diagnostic sense, especially since both were Gaussian curves in the actual population.
For example, one study of women undergoing gynecologic surgery indicated that the age of the patient had great diagnostic importance, and that notation of last menstrual period, biopsy of smear, pre-operative hemoglobin, and urine-sediment study were all much less important to making a diagnosis.
The onboard array lacks the diagnostic facilities to make a detailed analysis.
Fresno, her doctors attempted to explain to Foua and Nao Kao that they wanted to perform two more invasive diagnostic tests: a bronchoscopy, to see if the infection had originated in her right lung, and a sinus wash, to see if it had originated in her sinuses.
The diagnostic symptoms of anaemia are pallor of the face, lips, tongue, and general surface, weakness of the vital organs, hurried respiration on slight exercise, swelling or puffiness of the eyes, and a murmur of the heart, resembling the sound of a bellows.
Sivrak activated the diagnostics, rechanneled auxiliary power, and closed his wings for increased etheric stability.
The program had a number of familiar commands, and some that were new: it set permissions on the log files to unwritable, deleted the last line of the log file, engaged all diagnostic programs, updated size and hash information on all alarms, copied her executive file over the old one, altered the dates of creation and modification on her new file to those of the old one, then ended all diagnostic programs and reset permissions on the log files to writable.
CHRISTINE CHAPEL looked up from the biobed where she had been running a diagnostic routine for the last several minutes.