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PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does preliminary examination mean?
• PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION (noun)
The noun PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION has 1 sense:
1. an examination taken by graduate students to determine their fitness to continue
Familiarity information: PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An examination taken by graduate students to determine their fitness to continue
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
prelim; preliminary exam; preliminary examination
Hypernyms ("preliminary examination" is a kind of...):
exam; examination; test (a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge)
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