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fo·ren·sic

(fə-rĕn′sĭk, -zĭk)

adj.

1. Relating to, used in, or appropriate for courts of law or for public discussion or argumentation.

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

[From Latin forēnsis, public, of a forum, from forum, forum; see dhwer- in Indo-European roots.]

fo·ren′si·cal·ly adv.

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forensic

(fəˈrɛnsɪk)

adj

(Law) relating to, used in, or connected with a court of law: forensic science.

[C17: from Latin forēnsis public, from forum]

forensicality n

foˈrensically adv

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fo•ren•sic

(fəˈrɛn sɪk)

adj.

1. pertaining to or used in courts of law or in public debate.

2. adapted or suited to argumentation; rhetorical.

3. of, pertaining to, or involved with forensic medicine or forensic anthropology: forensic laboratories.

4. forensics, the art or study of argumentation and formal debate.

5. forensics, a department of forensic medicine, as in a police laboratory.

(used with a sing. v.)

[1650–60; < Latin forēns(is) of, belonging to the forum, public (see forum)]

fo•ren`si•cal′i•ty (-ˈkæl ɪ ti) n.

fo•ren′si•cal•ly, adv.

forensic

Belonging to or used in a court of law.

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Adj.	1.	forensic - of, relating to, or used in public debate or argument rhetorical - given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought; "mere rhetorical frippery"
	2.	forensic - used or applied in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law; "forensic photograph"; "forensic ballistics" applied - concerned with concrete problems or data rather than with fundamental principles; "applied physics"; "applied psychology"; "technical problems in medicine, engineering, economics and other applied disciplines"- Sidney Hook

Translations

قَضائي، شَرْعي

soudní

retslig

gerichtlich Gerichts-

δικανικός εγκληματολογικός

forense legal

oikeuslääketieteellinenrikostekninen

légal médicolégal rhétorique barreau juridique

törvényszéki

réttarlæknisfræîi

forense giudiziario legalemedico-legale

弁論の法医学の法廷の討論の

teismo

tiesas-tiesu-

juridisk retts-rettslig

kryminalistycznyoratorskisądowy

forense retórico

риторический судебно-медицинский судебный

adlî

法庭的

forensic

[fəˈrensɪk] ADJ → forense; [medicine] → legal, forense

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

forensic

[fəˈrɛnsɪk] adj [skill] → de juriste
forensic expert → expert(e) médico-légal(e)forensic evidence n → preuves fpl relevées lors d'une expertise médicolégale
to be convicted on forensic evidence → être reconnu coupable sur la base du rapport médico-légalforensic medicine n → médecine f légaleforensic scientist n → médecin m légiste

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forensic

adj

evidence, test, laboratory → forensisch; (Med) → gerichtsmedizinisch

(form) skill → forensisch

forensic

forensic expert

n (Police) → Spurensicherungsexperte m → /-expertin f

forensic medicine

n → Gerichtsmedizin f, → forensische Medizin

forensic

forensic science

n → Kriminaltechnik f; forensic laboratory → kriminaltechnisches Labor

forensic scientist

n → Kriminaltechniker(in) m(f)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

forensic

[fəˈrɛnsɪk] adj (evidence, laboratory) → medico-legale
forensic scientist or expert → esperto/a della (polizia) scientifica

forensic

(fəˈrensik) adjective

of or concerning courts of law. forensic medicine.

fo·ren·sic

a. forense, rel. a asuntos legales;

___ laboratory → laboratorio ___;

___ medicine → medicina legal;

___ physician → médico ___

forensic

adj forense

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Stryver, shaking his forensic forefinger at the Temple in general, when it was down, "my way out of this, is, to put you all in the wrong."

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That lady, therefore, entering in a stately manner what plebeians might have called the school-room, but what, in the patrician language of the head of the Nuns' House, was euphuistically, not to say round-aboutedly, denominated 'the apartment allotted to study,' and saying with a forensic air,

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On the last occasion he had escaped by a forensic quibble and not, as usual, by a private escapade; and it was a question whether at the moment he was amenable to the law or not.

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Philips' incredulous sniff was a triumph of forensic skill.

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Without taking the least notice of this inquiry, albeit delivered in an imposing and forensic manner, Lavinia reminded her sister,

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His hair was thin and weak, which was partly attributable to his having never devoted much time to its arrangement, and partly to his having worn for five-and-twenty years the forensic wig which hung on a block beside him.

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