diagnostic

English

Alternative forms

• diagnostick (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /daɪəˈɡnɒstɪk/

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Adjective

diagnostic (comparative more diagnostic, superlative most diagnostic)

1. Of, or relating to diagnosis.
2. (medicine) Characteristic of a particular disease.
3. Serving to indicate or specify a particular item or thing within a group of similar things.
   • 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 10:

     Each language has its own distinct phonological qualities which a counter can tap into with effect. It is not necessarily specific phonemes (though these can sometimes be diagnostic), but rather the frequency and phonotactic distribution of each disparate set of phonemes that go together in the speech stream in certain recognisable ways.

4. (education) Intended to assess a student's preexisting knowledge on the material being taught.

   A diagnostic assessment

5. (biology) (of a skeletal or genetic feature) Characteristic of a particular taxon or clade.

Hyponyms

• pathognomonic

Derived terms

• diagnostic overshadowing
• self-diagnostic

 

Translations

of, or relating to diagnosis

• Arabic:
• Belarusian: дыягнасты́чны (dyjahnastýčny)
• Bulgarian: диагности́чен (diagnostíčen)
• Catalan: diagnòstic (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: diagnostický (cs)
• Danish: diagnostisk
• Dutch: diagnostisch (nl)
• Esperanto: diagnoza
• Finnish: diagnostinen
• French: diagnostique (fr)
• German: diagnostisch (de)
• Greek: διαγνωστικός (el) (diagnostikós)
• Hungarian: diagnosztikai (hu)
• Italian: diagnostico (it)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: diagnostisk

  Nynorsk: diagnostisk

• Polish: diagnostyczny (pl)
• Portuguese: diagnóstico (pt)
• Romanian: de diagnoză, de diagnostic
• Russian: диагности́ческий (ru) (diagnostíčeskij)
• Spanish: diagnóstico (es)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: tanılayıcı, tanısal, teşhise ait, teşhisle alakalı/ilgili
• Ukrainian: діагности́чний (diahnostýčnyj)

Noun

diagnostic (plural diagnostics)

1. Any technique used in medical diagnosis.
2. (computing) Any tool or technique used to find the root of a problem.
3. That by which anything is known; a symptom.

See also

• diagnostics

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /djaɡ.nɔs.tik/

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Noun

diagnostic m (plural diagnostics)

1. diagnosis

Related terms

• diagnostique

Further reading

• “diagnostic”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French diagnostic.

Noun

diagnostic n (plural diagnostice)

1. diagnostic

Declension

Declension of diagnostic

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) diagnostic	diagnosticul	(niște) diagnostice	diagnosticele
genitive/dative	(unui) diagnostic	diagnosticului	(unor) diagnostice	diagnosticelor
vocative	diagnosticule		diagnosticelor