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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
forensic
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
forensic examination (=the scientific methods used for finding out about a crime)
▪ The clothing was sent to the lab for forensic examination.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
evidence
▪ There was no forensic evidence to link Mr Nichol to the attack.
▪ Tiem and weather had worn away any forensic evidence.
▪ The case against Coleman was largely circumstantial, supported by some inconclusive forensic evidence.
▪ Gore then devised a plan to burn down the house, destroying any forensic evidence he might have left behind.
▪ Miss Clare Reggiori, prosecuting, applied for a four-week remand in custody, saying forensic evidence needed to be examined.
▪ In September 1990 a Home Office review concluded that there was no forensic evidence against the six.
▪ The forensic evidence dripped into the office.
▪ The balance might well be tipped by forensic evidence.
examination
▪ The floor was bare as if a carpet had been removed, no doubt for forensic examination.
▪ Other officers got on hands and knees to collect red flakes of the benches' paint from the track for forensic examination.
▪ The hood has been sent for forensic examination and it is hoped it will yield important clues.
▪ Now the piece had been put into a polythene bag and given a label pending its despatch for forensic examination.
▪ The three have been released pending forensic examinations of the drugs.
experts
▪ Four months later forensic experts found minute but widespread bloodstains in the bungalow.
▪ Its techniques are followed by forensic experts around the globe and in police forces across the United States.
▪ Yesterday, teams of police and forensic experts launched a massive inquiry to find the mindless yobs.
▪ Police said forensic experts had now confirmed the fire was not an accident.
▪ Earlier this morning Home Office forensic experts were called in as the police believed they may be dealing with a murder investigation.
▪ The car was slowly winched out of the water so that forensic experts could begin their work with the minimum of disturbance.
laboratory
▪ The forensic laboratory has a good deal of work to do on his clothes, and the contents of his pockets.
▪ They found the jacket had been bleached - forensic laboratories could find no trace of blood.
▪ Horton, from the forensic laboratory, had arrived.
▪ The team from the Fulham forensic laboratories.
medicine
▪ When she'd first qualified in forensic medicine he'd been a young sergeant.
pathologist
▪ The forensic scientist - as distinct from the forensic pathologist - has come into his own.
▪ For example, if he testifies as a forensic pathologist, his fee is $ 250 an hour.
▪ He's a forensic pathologist attached to the Laboratory.
▪ Two forensic pathologists Mister Gleason has scheduled for our entertainment here.
psychiatrist
▪ A forensic psychiatrist was called in to help solve the mystery of her disappearance as she broke down under questioning.
▪ A forensic psychiatrist beleives the Princess Risborough attacker is a sadist from a poor background.
science
▪ A Home Office pathologist and forensic science team are at the scene, carrying out a full investigation.
▪ They were taken to a mobile forensic science unit at Severomorsk naval base, but so far only Kolesnikov has been named.
▪ In high spirits, his father was talking about the immense advances made in forensic science in recent years.
▪ Mum, did you know that our Lab is the oldest forensic science lab in the country?
▪ Using modern forensic science techniques on original evidence, the West Midlands force have been forced to rethink their view of events.
▪ Analysis of Directional Data; and statistical applications in agriculture, medicine, epidemiology, forensic science.
▪ Besides working on Inside Out, the reporter was also presenting a special documentary about forensic science.
▪ Few men, in or outside the forensic science service, knew so much about it.
scientist
▪ Some of the most famous forensic scientists have started that way, he said.
▪ I thought forensic scientists were particularly at risk.
▪ Detailed case studies, which will involve reading original transcripts, will be followed up by interviews of forensic scientists.
▪ Traditionally forensic scientists have relied on dental records and presumptive identifications by relatives.
▪ Sections of the barrier were brought to the inquest and forensic scientist David Price said it hadn't been welded together properly.
▪ Anyway, the forensic scientists will be able to confirm she had some one in with her.
▪ Police forces around the country have sought advice from forensic scientists in their attempts to find those responsible for such attacks.
▪ These chapters will be particularly interesting to the practising as well as to the trainee forensic scientist.
team
▪ As the forensic team finished with areas of the flat he could move around more and disturb things.
▪ Just after seven the forensic team finished and called to him that they were off.
▪ The last minutes of their lives were pieced together by forensic teams hunting the killers.
▪ A forensic team was hunting for clues.
▪ Upstairs, the forensic team had finished with the bodies.
test
▪ She wondered how much he had told Barney about the purpose and the result of the forensic tests.
▪ The bones were last night flown to Britain for forensic tests.
▪ Murder squad detectives, led by Detective Superintendent Stan Fletcher, sealed off the area while forensic tests were carried out.
▪ Four cars damaged in the pile up have been towed away for forensic tests.
▪ A postmortem examination failed to establish a definite cause of death and the results of further forensic tests are awaited.
▪ Mr McInally said that forensic tests had revealed liquid petrol on the accused's shirt and jeans.
▪ It's too early to say more until we get the results of the post-mortem examination and the forensic tests.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Forensic evidence showed that the woman had been raped before being murdered.
▪ a forensic expert
▪ a politician's forensic skill
▪ DNA tests have revolutionized forensic science.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Earlier this morning Home Office forensic experts were called in as the police believed they may be dealing with a murder investigation.
▪ First on the witness stand was Neill Freeman, a forensic accountant who traces assets in legal disputes.
▪ He misses the camaraderie of the Bar and the exhilaration of forensic battle in the exalted courts.
▪ Some of the most famous forensic scientists have started that way, he said.
▪ Some specialize in forensic accounting investigating and interpreting bankruptcies and other complex financial transactions.
▪ The office run by Oxfordshire county council was closed to the public while police carried out forensic investigations.
▪ Two forensic pathologists Mister Gleason has scheduled for our entertainment here.
▪ When she'd first qualified in forensic medicine he'd been a young sergeant.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forensic

Forensic \Fo*ren"sic\, n. (Amer. Colleges) An exercise in debate; a forensic contest; an argumentative thesis.

Forensic

Forensic \Fo*ren"sic\, a. [L. forensis, fr. forum a public place, market place. See Forum.] Belonging to courts of judicature or to public discussion and debate; used in legal proceedings, or in public discussions; argumentative; rhetorical; as, forensic eloquence or disputes.

Forensic medicine, medical jurisprudence; medicine in its relations to law.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
forensic

"pertaining to or suitable for courts of law," 1650s, with -ic + stem of Latin forensis "of a forum, place of assembly," related to forum "public place" (see forum). Later used especially in sense of "pertaining to legal trials," as in forensic medicine (1845). Related: Forensical (1580s).

Wiktionary
forensic

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

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WordNet
forensic

adj. used of legal argumentation

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Wikipedia
Forensic (album)

Forensic is an album by German jazz saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock, which was recorded in 2003 and released on the British F-IRE label, a musician-run company associated to the F-IRE Collective.

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Usage examples of "forensic".

Consequently, this is the mind-set that prompted in 1984 the active inclusion of forensic pathology in the criminal profiling activities of the Behavioral Science Unit at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia.

He has been a consultant in forensic pathology to the Behavioral Science Investigative Support Unit at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va.

There was the forensic scientist, but Middleton had agreed through his solicitors and his interview with Boardman that his sperm was found.

Twenty minutes later, two members of the town police clambered through the chokeberry and the holly, down to the banks of the Haddan, where they waited uneasily for the forensics team from Hamilton to arrive.

A distinguished fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, he is the author or coauthor of more than twenty books, including Cracking Cases.

The culminating example is the Dingell hearings which in 1991 led to the Nobel Laureate and Rockefeller President David Baltimore being forced to publicly withdraw a paper he had coauthored five years previously, because the forensic evidence conclusively demonstrated that the lab books on which it was based had been tampered with to give misleading data.

Reuben Montego had said, the Laurentian lab did a lot of forensic work, and so had sealing tape that could be applied to the glassware.

Annaeus Lucanus is henceforth and forever proscribed from poetical or literary production or publication, and is forbidden to plead causes or cases or to participate in readings, forensic contests, competitions, games, or public occasions of any sort whatsoever.

He recommended that a forensic odontologist, or dentist, review the photographs.

I had one of my friends at the lab, a forensic odontologist, look them over.

Dolson here is not a forensic odontologist, forensic anthropologist, forensic pathologist, or a dentist, is she?

A pathologist may analyze the organs and brain, an entomologist the insects, an odontologist the teeth and dental records, a molecular biologist the DNA, and a ballistics expert the bullets and casings, while the forensic anthropologist pores over the bones.

FBI and the United Nations Commission for the Investigation of War Crimes-knows me as one of the leading forensic odontologists in the world.

He is one of our odontologists, or forensic dentists, whose bad luck it is to be on call Christmas Eve.

There was also a Dental station where OCME forensic odontologists were in charge.