say it: in-ter-uh-GAY-shuhn
interrogation is a noun meaning "a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply". It carries 4 recorded senses.
a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply
“he asked a direct question”
“he had trouble phrasing his interrogations”
a transmission that will trigger an answering transmission from a transponder
formal systematic questioning
an instance of questioning
“there was a question about my training”
“we made inquiries of all those who were present”
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 interrogation 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.