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🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

vérification de cohérence

Pronunciation / Transliteration: veh-ri-fika-syohn duh koh-eh-rahns

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Sanity-check/ˈsæn.ə.ti ˌtʃɛk/
nounverbCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #8500 frequency
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"Faisons une vérification de cohérence sur ces chiffres."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A quick, informal test or assessment performed to establish that a product, calculation, or theory is rational, valid, and free of glaring errors.

    "Before submitting the final budget report, the manager performed a quick sanity-check on the total sums."
As verb
  1. 1

    To quickly review or test something for basic validity, logic, or correctness.

    "Can you sanity-check my code before I deploy it to the production server?"
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Coined in the mid-20th century, combining 'sanity' (soundness of mind) and 'check' (to examine or verify). Originally derived from engineering and software development contexts to denote a quick test to determine if a system or calculation is rational and free of gross errors.

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