inspection

inspection

English

Alternative forms

• inspexion (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French, from Old French inspeccion, from Latin īnspectiō (“examination, inspection”), from the verb īnspiciō (“I inspect”), from speciō (“I look at”). By surface analysis, inspect +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈspɛkʃən/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɛkʃən

Noun

inspection (countable and uncountable, plural inspections)

1. The act of examining something, often closely.

   Upon closer inspection, the animal turned out to be a dolphin, not a shark!

2. An organization that checks that certain laws or rules are obeyed.

   The inspection fined the restaurant's owner because the kitchen was dirty.

Synonyms

• examination
• scrutiny

Related terms

• inspect
• inspector

Translations

the act of examining something, often closely

Arabic: تَفَقُّد‎ m (tafaqqud) Belarusian: інспе́кцыя f (inspjékcyja), інспэ́кцыя f (inspékcyja), праве́рка f (pravjérka) Bulgarian: пре́глед (bg) m (prégled), реви́зия (bg) f (revízija), прове́рка (bg) f (provérka) Catalan: inspecció (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 檢查／检查 (zh) (jiǎnchá) Crimean Tatar: teftiş Czech: prohlídka (cs) f, kontrola (cs) f Dutch: onderzoek (nl) n, inspectie (nl) f Esperanto: inspekto Finnish: tarkastus (fi), tarkastelu (fi), tutkiminen (fi), katsastus (fi) French: inspection (fr) f German: Inspektion (de) f, Prüfung (de) f Gothic: 𐌽𐌹𐌿𐌷𐍃𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 f (niuhseins) Greek: εξέταση (el) f (exétasi) Hungarian: ellenőrzés (hu) Indonesian: pemeriksaan (id), inspeksi (id) Italian: ispezione (it) f, controllo (it) m, esame (it) m, analisi (it) f Japanese: 検査 (ja) (けんさ, kensa) Korean: 검사(檢査) (ko) (geomsa) Malay: pemeriksaan, inspeksi Malayalam: പരിശോധന (ml) (pariśōdhana) Maori: mātaitanga Norwegian: Bokmål: inspeksjon m Nynorsk: inspeksjon m Old English: inscēawung f, smēagung f Polish: badanie (pl) n, zbadanie (pl) n, kontrola (pl) f, inspekcja (pl) f Portuguese: inspeção (pt) f Romanian: inspecționare f, controlare (ro) f, inspectare (ro) f Russian: инспе́кция (ru) f (inspékcija), прове́рка (ru) f (provérka) Sanskrit: परीक्षा (sa) f (parīkṣā) Spanish: inspección (es) f Turkish: teftiş (tr) Ukrainian: інспе́кція f (inspékcija), переві́рка (uk) f (perevírka) Vietnamese: sự kiểm tra (vi) Welsh: arolwg m

organization that checks that certain laws or rules are obeyed

Belarusian: інспе́кцыя f (inspjékcyja), iнспэ́кцыя f (inspékcyja) Bulgarian: инспе́кция (bg) f (inspékcija) Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Czech: inspekce (cs) f Dutch: inspectie (nl) f, keuring (nl) f Finnish: tarkastusvirasto French: please add this translation if you can Greek: επιθεώρηση (el) f (epitheórisi) Hungarian: please add this translation if you can Italian: ispezione (it) f Japanese: please add this translation if you can Polish: inspekcja (pl) f, kontrola (pl) f Russian: инспе́кция (ru) f (inspékcija) Ukrainian: інспе́кція f (inspékcija)

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Anagrams

• cispontine, inceptions

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French

Etymology

From Old French inspeccion, borrowed from Latin īnspectiō (“examination, inspection”), from the verb īnspectō (“I inspect”), from spectō (“I observe, I watch”), frequentative of speciō (“I look at”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃s.pɛk.sjɔ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

inspection f (plural inspections)

1. inspection (act of examining something, often closely)

Further reading

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