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Forensically vs Forensic - What's the difference?

forensically | forensic |

Forensically is a derived term of forensic.


As a adverb forensically

is in a forensic manner.

As a adjective forensic is

relating to the use of science and technology in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law.

forensically

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • In a forensic manner
  • Regarding forensics, or forensic science
  • forensic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * forensick (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Relating to the use of science and technology in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , date = 21 August 2012 , first = Ed , last = Pilkington , title = Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die? , newspaper = The Guardian , url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/21/death-penalty-trial-reggie-clemons?newsfeed=true , page = , passage = 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.}}
  • * 1996 , 8 June, Bill Clinton, ,
  • Fire investigators and forensic chemists are combing through fire sites [the , interviewing witnesses, and following leads.
  • (dated) Relating to, or appropriate for courts of law.
  • * 1885 , , The Life of Abraham Lincoln , ,
  • It [the judiciary] had been the forum before which the highest forensic discussions had been held,
  • (archaic) Relating to, or used in debate or argument.
  • * 1851 , (Edward Shepherd Creasy), (The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World) , ,
  • Varus trusted implicitly to the interest which they affected to take in the forensic eloquence of their conquerors.

    Synonyms

    * (Related or appropriate for a court of law) legal * (Related or used in debate and argumentation) rhetorical

    Derived terms

    * forensic accounting * forensic engineering * forensic linguistics * forensic medicine * forensic science * forensically * forensics

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