Diagnostic

Quick meaning: Diagnostic is an adjective meaning Of, or relating to diagnosis.

Meaning

Of, or relating to diagnosis.

More Meanings

1. (medicine) Characteristic of a particular disease.
2. Serving to indicate or specify a particular item or thing within a group of similar things.
3. (education) Intended to assess a student's preexisting knowledge on the material being taught.
4. (biology, of a skeletal or genetic feature) Characteristic of a particular taxon or clade.
5. Any technique used in medical diagnosis.
6. (computing) Any tool or technique used to find the root of a problem.
7. That by which anything is known; a symptom.

Example Sentences

A diagnostic assessment

Each language has its own distinct phonological qualities which a counter can tap into with effect. It is not necessarily specific phonemes (though these can sometimes be diagnostic), but rather the frequency and phonotactic distribution of each disparate set of phonemes that go together in the speech stream in certain recognisable ways.

Word Forms

• diagnostick
• diagnostics

Synonyms for diagnostic

Depending on context, synonyms include characteristic, symptomatic.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include symptomatic, characteristic, diagnose, self-diagnosis, diagnosis, clinical.

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