scrutation

English

Etymology

Latin scrutatio.

Noun

scrutation (countable and uncountable, plural scrutations)

1. (obsolete) Search; scrutiny.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “scrutation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• crustation, curtations, ructations

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

scrutation f (plural scrutations)

1. (computing) polling

Further reading

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