Examination /(?)/

Ex·am·i·na·tion

Examination

n.
  1. The act of examining, or state of being examined; a careful search, investigation, or inquiry; scrutiny by study or experiment.
  2. A process prescribed or assigned for testing qualification; as, the examination of a student, or of a candidate for admission to the bar or the ministry.
    He neglected the studies, . . . stood low at the examinations.

Phrases & Compounds
Examination in chief
that examination which is made of a witness by a party calling him.
Cross-examination
that made by the opposite party.
Reëxamination
that questioning of a witness at trial made by the party calling the witness, after, and upon matters arising out of, the cross-examination; also called informally re-direct.