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say it: ig-zam-uh-NAY-shuhn
examination is a noun meaning "the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes)". It carries 5 recorded senses.
the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes)
a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge
“when the test was stolen the professor had to make a new set of questions”
formal systematic questioning
a detailed inspection of your conscience (as done daily by Jesuits)
the act of giving students or candidates a test (as by questions) to determine what they know or have learned
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for examination come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.