diagnostic

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English

Alternative forms

• diagnostick (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /daɪ.əɡˈnɒs.tɪk/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌdaɪ.əɡˈnɑ.stɪk/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /dɑɪ.əɡˈnɔs.tɪk/

Adjective

diagnostic (comparative more diagnostic, superlative most diagnostic)

1. Of, or relating to diagnosis.
2. (medicine) Characteristic of a particular disease.
3. Serving to indicate or specify a particular item or thing within a group of similar things.
4. (education) Intended to assess a student's preexisting knowledge on the material being taught.

5. (biology) (of a skeletal or genetic feature) Characteristic of a particular taxon or clade.

Hyponyms

• pathognomonic

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

diagnostic (plural diagnostics)

1. Any technique used in medical diagnosis.
2. (computing) Any tool or technique used to find the root of a problem.
3. That by which anything is known; a symptom.

See also

• diagnostics

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /djaɡ.nɔs.tik/

Noun

diagnostic m (plural diagnostics)

1. diagnosis

Related terms

• diagnostique

Further reading

• “diagnostic”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French diagnostic.

Noun

diagnostic n (plural diagnostice)

1. diagnostic

Declension