diagnostic
adjective/ˌdaɪəɡˈnɒstɪk/
/ˌdaɪəɡˈnɑːstɪk/
- [usually before noun] (specialist) connected with identifying an illness or other problem
- to carry out diagnostic assessments/tests
- Get a low-cost car diagnostic tool to identify the fault.
- diagnostic of something specific conditions which are diagnostic of AIDS
Oxford Collocations DictionaryDiagnostic is used with these nouns:- manual
- procedure
- technique
- …
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- connected with identifying what a student needs to learn
- diagnostic grammar tests
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Greek diagnōstikos ‘able to distinguish’, from diagignōskein ‘distinguish’; the noun from hē diagnōstikē tekhnē ‘the art of distinguishing (disease)’.
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