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Examination

n.
  1. The act of examining, or state of being examined; a careful search, investigation, or inquiry; scrutiny by study or experiment.
  2. A process prescribed or assigned for testing qualification; as, the examination of a student, or of a candidate for admission to the bar or the ministry.
    3. Examination in chief, or Direct examination (Law),
    that examination which is made of a witness by a party calling him.
    Cross-examination ,
    that made by the opposite party.
    Reëxamination, or Re-direct examination , (Law)
    that questioning of a witness at trial made by the party calling the witness, after, and upon matters arising out of, the cross-examination; also called informally re-direct.