introspect
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introspect (third-person singular simple present introspects, present participle introspecting, simple past and past participle introspected)
- (intransitive) To engage in introspection.
- (transitive) To look into.
- 2012, J. R. Mendola, Human Thought:
- Second, to say that something is introspectible, that we can introspect it, is not to imply that we are in fact aware of it. What's more, I haven't claimed that we even can introspect all the thoughts we have, only that we can introspect that we have two important sorts of thoughts.
- (transitive, programming) To examine by means of type introspection.
- 2002, Java Enterprise Best Practices, O'Reilly:
DynamicMBeanFacade
uses Java's reflection API to introspect the managed resource and discover data type information for attributes.