- 1鑑識的（台灣警察與新聞多說「鑑識」；驗傷驗屍較常說「法醫」。中國大陸較常說「法醫／司法鑑定」）
Forensic is a describing word. It is about using careful science to find out what happened in a crime: blood, , phones, fibres, even a tiny bit of dust, then turning that into something a court can trust. Police labs, scientists, and lawyers all use it — forensic evidence, a forensic scientist, a forensic test. Though actually, people now stretch it. A forensic accountant hunts through money records the way a crime-lab person hunts through a room; forensic studies language to help a case. The old Latin idea was “of the public square / of the law court,” so the science sense grew out of “what you can show in public, in court.” In everyday talk now it almost always means crime-lab science, not a friendly chat. TV makes it look like every case is a dead body; a lot of forensic work is quiet, slow, and about objects.
From the word’s history
From Latin forēnsis 'of the forum, public' + -ic, from forum.
來自拉丁文 forēnsis「廣場的、公開的」加 -ic，源自 forum。
組成From Latin forēnsis (“of the forum, public”) + -ic, from forum (“forum, marketplace”).
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
forensicadj/fəˈɹɛn.zɪk/
- 1
Relating to the use of science and technology in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law.
- forensic analysis; forensic examination; forensic evidence; forensic investigation; forensic pathologist
- In this account of events, the cards were stacked against Clemons from the beginning. His appeal lawyers have argued that he was physically beaten into making a confession, the jury was wrongfully selected and misdirected, and his conviction largely achieved on individual testimony with no supporting forensic evidence presented.
- 2
datedRelating to, or appropriate for, courts of law; suitable or adapted to legal argumentation.
- Varus trusted implicitly […] to the interest which they affected to take in the forensic eloquence of their conquerors.
- Mr. Philips’ incredulous sniff was a triumph of forensic skill.
- 3
informalPrecise, thorough, or highly meticulous, by analogy with a scientific legal investigation.
- A forensic account of history
- With forensic precision
- 4
Relating to forms of disability associated with criminal risk.
- a forensic learning disability
- patients with forensic needs
- 5
archaicRelating to, or used in, debate or argument.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。