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noun, feminine

inspection

/ɛ̃s.pɛk.sjɔ̃/

noun, feminine/ɛ̃s.pɛk.sjɔ̃/plural: inspections

inspection (act of examining something, often closely)

Inherited from Old French inspeccion, borrowed from Latin īnspectiōnem (“examination, inspection”), from the verb īnspectō (“to inspect”), from spectō (“to observe, to watch”), frequentative of speciō (“to look at”).