forensics

UK/fəˈɹɛn.zɪks/US/fəˈɹɛn.zɪks/

nounB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #4,256 of 15,258leans spoken

Forensics is the science of examining traces left at a crime. Send it to forensics, forensics evidence, the forensics team.

Television has done real damage here: juries now expect the kind of certainty that laboratories cannot give, and several long-trusted techniques have turned out to rest on far less than was claimed. DNA is the strong exception. The Latin forum was the place of public argument.

Definitions of forensics

1nounforensicsThe science of examining traces left at a crime.B2
“Forensics found the suspect's fingerprints on the broken glass.”

forensics is a science.

Practised in Crime & Law

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forensics in the wild

Individual events in speech include public speaking, limited preparation, acting and interpretation are a part of forensics competitions.
Individual events (speech)
Although it is most often associated with the investigation of a wide variety of computer crime, computer forensics may also be used in civil proceedings.
Computer forensics
Database forensics is a branch of digital forensic science relating to the forensic study of databases and their related metadata.
Database forensics
As a result, forensic examiners must use a different forensic process compared to computer forensics.
Mobile device forensics
Modern audio forensics makes extensive use of digital signal processing, with the former use of analog filters now being obsolete.
Audio forensics

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