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PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION

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Dictionary entry overview: What does preliminary examination mean?

• PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION (noun)
The noun PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION has 1 sense:

1. an examination taken by graduate students to determine their fitness to continue

Familiarity information: PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

An examination taken by graduate students to determine their fitness to continue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

preliminary exam; preliminary examination; prelim

Hypernyms ("preliminary examination" is a kind of...):

exam; examination; test (a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge)

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