diagnostics
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- noun
- /ˌdaɪəɡˈnɑːstɪks/
- Specialized
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diagnóstico
- The technician recommended running comprehensive diagnostics to identify the software issues.
- diagnostics software
- advanced diagnostics
- diagnostics and monitoring
The soul tells the the body, take that medicine or let's do some diagnostics and and run some tests.
- The soul tells the the body, take that medicine or let's do some diagnostics and and run some tests.
- If it does, then my assumption is poor contact, but just thought we'd do some diagnostics.
- We're spending a lot of hours on, on doing diagnostics.
Examples
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Yeah, we'll just throw it up on the lift and run some diagnostics.
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So we provide those sorts of diagnostics and alerts for our clients.
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I wanna run full diagnostics on the system.
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- We're just going through the diagnostics now.
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All the diagnostics seem okay.
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We'll run some diagnostics and get to the root of it.
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Run complete and thorough diagnostics.
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I connect to the main system nightly to run a full diagnostics test and receive any updates.
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We've run the diagnostics.
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The instruments offer self-diagnostics, including warnings and alarms for flow, sensor, and valve status.
Academic text (2002)
Synonyms
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An activity to check how well something works
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A test that finds the cause of a problem in a person or machine
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A medical check that shows what illness or problem a person has
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A piece of software that finds and explains computer problems
A computer program that finds and fixes problems in hardware or software
How Thorough
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Surface Forms
Morphology
diagnostics = diagnostic (transparent) = diagnostic + s
A straightforward plural/nominal use of 'diagnostic' referring to diagnostic tests/tools; meaning is directly derived from the base.
Etymology
Diagnostics comes from the Greek parts dia- 'through' and gnosis 'knowledge', the same root as diagnose. For computers and machines, diagnostics are the tests and tools that help you 'find out' what is wrong, so the word means checks to discover problems.