FORENSICS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does forensics mean? 

• FORENSICS (noun)
  The noun FORENSICS has 1 sense:

1. scientific tests or techniques used in the investigation of crimes

  Familiarity information: FORENSICS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORENSICS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Scientific tests or techniques used in the investigation of crimes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("forensics" is a kind of...):

police investigation; police work (the investigation of criminal activities)

 Context examples 

Used for drug screening, pharmacology studies, environmental analyses and forensics.

(Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry, NCI Thesaurus)