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FORENSIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does forensic mean? 

FORENSIC (adjective)
  The adjective FORENSIC has 2 senses:

1. of, relating to, or used in public debate or argumentplay

2. used or applied in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of lawplay

  Familiarity information: FORENSIC used as an adjective is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FORENSIC (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Of, relating to, or used in public debate or argument

Similar:

rhetorical (given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Used or applied in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law

Context example:

forensic ballistics

Similar:

applied (concerned with concrete problems or data rather than with fundamental principles)


 Context examples 


In forensic medicine, the probes used are "core" sequences specific for simple tandem-repetitive sequences (minisatellite repeats or VNTRs).

(DNA Fingerprinting, NCI Thesaurus)



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