Other forms: inspections
An inspection is an official close look to check that everything is as it should be. Somebody arrives with a clipboard.
Schools, restaurants, factories and lifts all get inspected, and the result is usually a report and a rating. The word takes of. There is a useful phrase, on closer inspection, which means once you looked properly, and it nearly always introduces a surprise. The verb is inspect and the person is an inspector, which is also a police rank in Britain.
1nouninspectionAn official examination to check standards or condition.
“The kitchen passed its inspection.”
An inspection is a looking into. Latin īnspiciō is built on speciō, to look at, so the word promises attention rather than judgement.
Latin
īnspectiō — examination, inspection
Old French
inspeccion
English, today
inspection
Built from
From Middle French -, from Old French inspeccion, from Latin īnspectiō (“examination, inspection”), from the verb īnspiciō (“to inspect”), from speciō (“to look at”). by surface analysis, inspect + -ion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA