单词 | forensics |
释义 | forensicsn. 1. U.S. Persuasive oratory or rhetoric of the kind used in advocating in a court of law; spec. competitive debating or public speaking, esp. as practised in colleges (cf. forensic n. 1).With either plural agreement (e.g. forensics have no part in this trial) or singular agreement (e.g. forensics was an extracurricular activity). ΚΠ 1844 National Intelligencer (Washington) 9 Aug. French provincial life, tone, scandal, and forensics were never more remarkably exemplified and authenticated. 1858 Valley Farmer Aug. 264/1 It was urged..that forensics had never been my study, and therefore..the society had better make a different selection. 1899 R. N. Roark Meth. in Educ. xix. 318 Every school, from the rural school to the university, should provide definitively for teaching forensics. 1960 J. W. Bellah Sergeant Rutledge xvii. 99 Pure forensics have no part in a trial by court-martial. 2001 A. Allen Coll. Admissions Trade Secrets (ed. 2) 116 Your college may not offer debate/forensics/rhetoric as a course; if it doesn't, join your high school or county forensics club. 2. a. Forensic science, or (with distinguishing word) a branch of this; forensic scientific investigation. Also: the results of such investigation.With either plural agreement (e.g. forensics show that he was poisoned) or singular agreement (e.g. DNA forensics is a powerful tool). ΚΠ 1924 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 29 508 The deductions made from Steinach's theory by students of the psychology of sex, by therapeutists, and in the field of forensics are for the present untenable. 1974 N.Y. Times 24 June 46/4 The same kind of gun firing the same kind of ammunition under the same circumstances will produce a similar pattern. The 39-year-old nuclear chemist believes that the phenomenon has possible key applications in crime forensics. 1990 A. Gordon Safe at Home i. 6 Once the forensics came back it was clear that they were killed by the same man. 1999 Wired May 100/1 He launched a career as a ‘computer forensics’ specialist, digging through disk drives to find incriminating words. 2003 Science 21 Feb. 1165/2 More is needed..including a national summit to establish microbial forensics as a new scientific discipline. 2013 A. Dubey & A. Misra Android Security viii. 169 To perform forensics on Android devices, it is important to understand the Android system. b. A forensic science department or laboratory that analyses evidence for a police force; specialists in forensic science, considered collectively. Often with capital initial. Cf. forensic n. 2.With either plural agreement (e.g. Forensics are at the scene) or singular agreement (e.g. Forensics is looking at the evidence). ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > offices attached to courts > forensic science department crime laboratory1914 crime lab1930 forensic1963 forensics1983 1983 Daily Mail 10 Oct. 20/4 Jack Klugman is the lugubrious man from Forensics. 1995 G. Burn Fullalove viii. 227 Forensics had completed their business. 2015 L. Waters NYPD Green xvi. 195 Forensics got to work, taking several swabs, each carefully sealed in an evidence bag. Compounds General use as a modifier (in sense 2). ΚΠ 1961 Emporia (Kansas) Gaz. 13 Oct. 4/7 A sample of the supposed Chinese aphrodisiac which the girl unwittingly took with her drinks was taken to the forensics laboratory for analysis. 1988 J. Hunter & A. Keteyian Catfish iv. 53 Our room was crawling with cops. Detectives, lab technicians, forensics guys dusting the windows for fingerprints, checking trajectories. 1998 D. Hecht Skull Session ii. xlvii. 294 BCI staff often put together skull sessions, where the agent in charge of a case, his supervisors, various forensics experts.., all sat down and brainstormed about where to go with a case that had stalled out. 2006 G. McGraw Software Security ix. 226 Infosec pros come to the table with the..benefit of having watched and dissected years of attack data, built forensics tools, created profiles of attackers, and so on. 2021 Mirror 17 Jan. 16 A forensics report had also been submitted to the investigating judge. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021). < n.1844 |
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