to interrogate
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8.2
- verb
- /ɪnˈtɛrəɡeɪt/
- Specialized
:
interrogar
- During the test, the engineers need to interrogate the network devices to check their responses.
You launch it into a fountain, the cloud goes up and goes down and you interrogate it twice.
- You launch it into a fountain, the cloud goes up and goes down and you interrogate it twice.
Examples
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Initiators interrogate sensors as needed to rapidly confirm possible warnings and to ensure that accurate information is sent to the driver.
Academic text (2005) -
IRIS stations play a significant secondary role because they can be remotely interrogated, a technique IRIS pioneered.
Academic text (1993) -
Let's interrogate the whole system.
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Proceed to interrogate next station.
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Interrogating the data exception code and setting the appropriate condition token.
Academic text (1999) -
That's a very simple sensor structure for interrogating the world.
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Various design considerations indicate a need for parallel operation of many reading heads in a nanoDASD, each of them interrogating only a small fraction of the storage area.
Academic text (1995) -
The technician will interrogate the system to ensure it operates correctly.
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To gather data on the new software, the IT team will interrogate various components of the system.
How Probing
- Specialized
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8.2
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2.1
Surface Forms
Etymology
Interrogate comes from the same Latin parts inter- 'between' and rogare 'to ask'. In technology it means to 'ask' a device or system for information, so to interrogate a sensor is to send a signal and get its reply.