diagnostic

About 17.25 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Of, or relating to diagnosis.
2. adjective Characteristic of a particular disease.
3. adjective Serving to indicate or specify a particular item or thing within a group of similar things.
4. adjective Intended to assess a student's preexisting knowledge on the material being taught.

   A diagnostic assessment

5. adjective Characteristic of a particular taxon or clade.
6. noun Any technique used in medical diagnosis.
7. noun Any tool or technique used to find the root of a problem.
8. noun That by which anything is known; a symptom.

Similar words

symptomatic characteristic diagnose self-diagnosis diagnosis clinical screening analysis formative analytical

Often followed by

and tests criteria test procedures value of tool purposes

Word family

diagnostical diagnostically diagnostician diagnosticians diagnostics