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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

合理性检查

Native Script:中文汉字

Pronunciation / Transliteration: hélǐxìng jiǎnchá

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Sense-check/ˈsɛns.tʃɛk/
nounverbCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #14500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"我们在提交前对数据做了一个合理性检查。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A quick preliminary assessment or evaluation to determine whether something is reasonable, plausible, or makes logical sense.

    "Before submitting the financial model, let's run a quick sense-check on the revenue growth projections."
As verb
  1. 1

    To evaluate or test something quickly for basic plausibility or common sense.

    "Can you sense-check these figures to ensure there are no obvious decimal point errors?"
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived as a compound noun and verb in the late 20th century from 'sense' (from Latin sentire, meaning to perceive) and 'check' (from Persian/Chess origin via Old French, meaning to restrain or test). It originated within professional contexts like engineering and finance to describe a quick evaluation of the plausibility of results.

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