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autopsy

nomverbecourant dans les dialogues

  • Royaume-Uni//ˈɔː.tɒp.si//
  • États-Unis//ˈɔ.tɑp.si//
  • États-Unis//ˈɑ.tɑp.si//
  • //ə.ʈɔːp.si//

A dissection performed on a cadaver to find possible cause(s) of death.

nom

  1. 1

    A dissection performed on a cadaver to find possible cause(s) of death.

    The autopsy revealed he had died of multiple bullet wounds.

  2. 2

    figuréAn after-the-fact examination, especially of the causes of a failure.

    This lack of built-in clutter makes the system easy to comprehend. Debugging facilities are few but powerful: snapshots, tracing, and autopsy.

    Understanding exactly what happened and why is an essential first step to winning back the White House. ¶ In addition to the autopsy, the DNC should abandon the penchant for secrecy and embrace the principles of transparency and accountability that helped inspire and engage millions of people to participate in the 2008 Obama campaign.

  3. 3

    rareAn eyewitness observation, the presentation of an event as witnessed.

Étymologie

From New Latin autopsia, from Ancient Greek αὐτοψῐ́ᾱ (autopsĭ́ā, “seeing with one's own eyes”). By surface analysis, auto- + -opsy.

verbe

  1. 1

    To perform an autopsy on.

  2. 2

    To perform an after-the-fact analysis of, especially of a failure.

    The user may define his own errors, and use DUMPAL to autopsy the system for him.

Formes

pluriel
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passé
autopsied
participe passé
autopsied
participe présent
autopsying
3ᵉ personne du singulier
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Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

Rang parmi les mots du corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — des sous-titres de films et de séries, donc de la langue parlée et non écrite (CC BY-SA 3.0).