Associations to the word «Investigation»

Wiktionary

INVESTIGATION, noun. The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, especially patient or thorough inquiry or examination; as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge, the moralist.

Dictionary definition

INVESTIGATION, noun. An inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities; "there was a congressional probe into the scandal".
INVESTIGATION, noun. The work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically.

Wise words

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates