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Inspector
//ɪnˈspɛktə// noun
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Noun
- 1 A person employed to inspect something.
"Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16.[…]There are no inspectors, no exams until the age of 18, no school league tables, no private tuition industry, no school uniforms.[…]"
- 2 an investigator who observes carefully wordnet
- 3 A police officer ranking below superintendent.
- 4 a high ranking police officer wordnet
- 5 A software tool used to examine something.
"Chrome has a built-in development tool called the Chrome Inspector. You can use it to examine the HTML elements in a web page; review what resources — or files, cookies, and databases — are active; follow network activity; […]"
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin īnspector, from īnspiciō, equivalent to inspect + -or.
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