autopsy
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
autopsy (plural autopsies)
- A dissection performed on a cadaver to find possible cause(s) of death.
- An after-the-fact examination, especially of the causes of a failure.
- 1977, National Science Foundation (U.S.), Washington State University. Computer Science Dept, Proceedings of Conference on Computers in the Undergraduate Curricula (issue 8)
- This lack of built-in clutter makes the system easy to comprehend. Debugging facilities are few but powerful: snapshots, tracing, and autopsy.
- 1977, National Science Foundation (U.S.), Washington State University. Computer Science Dept, Proceedings of Conference on Computers in the Undergraduate Curricula (issue 8)
- (rare) An eyewitness observation, the presentation of an event as witnessed.
- (dissection of a cadaver) necropsy, necrotomy; postmortem
- (after the fact examination) postmortem
- French: autopsie
- German: Autopsie, Leichenöffnung, Obduktion
- Portuguese: autópsia
- Russian: вскры́тие
- Spanish: autopsia
autopsy
- (transitive) To perform an autopsy on.
- (transitive) To perform an after-the-fact analysis of, especially of a failure.
- 1977, National Science Foundation (U.S.), Washington State University. Computer Science Dept, Proceedings of Conference on Computers in the Undergraduate Curricula (issue 8)
- The user may define his own errors, and use DUMPAL to autopsy the system for him.
- 1977, National Science Foundation (U.S.), Washington State University. Computer Science Dept, Proceedings of Conference on Computers in the Undergraduate Curricula (issue 8)
- German: (eine) Autopsie vornehmen, autopsieren
- Russian: вскрыва́ть
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