Diagnostic

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Diagnostic \Di`ag*nos"tic\, a. [Gr. ? able to distinguish, fr.
     ?: cf. F. diagnostique.]
     Pertaining to, or furnishing, a diagnosis; indicating the
     nature of a disease.
     [1913 Webster]



From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Diagnostic \Di`ag*nos"tic\, n.
     The mark or symptom by which one disease is known or
     distinguished from others.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  diagnostic
       adj 1: concerned with diagnosis; used for furthering diagnosis; "a
              diagnostic clinic"; "a diagnostic reading test";
              "diagnostic information"
       2: characteristic or indicative of e.g. a disease; "a
          diagnostic sign of yellow fever"; "diagnostic
          information"; "a rash symptomatic of scarlet fever";
          "symptomatic of insanity"; "a rise in crime symptomatic of
          social breakdown" [syn: {symptomatic}, {symptomatic of(p)}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  65 Moby Thesaurus words for "diagnostic":
     characteristic, characterizing, connotative, constructional,
     constructive, contrastive, definitional, demonstrative,
     denominative, denotative, descriptive, designative, diacritical,
     differencing, differential, differentiative, discriminating,
     discriminative, distinctive, distinguishing, emblematic,
     evidential, exegetic, exhibitive, expressive, figural, figurative,
     hermeneutic, identifying, ideographic, idiosyncratic, implicative,
     indicating, indicative, indicatory, individual, individualizing,
     individuating, interpretational, interpretive, meaningful,
     metaphorical, naming, pathognomonic, peculiar, personalizing,
     proper, representative, semantic, semeiological, semiotic,
     separative, signalizing, significant, significative, signifying,
     suggestive, symbolic, symbolistic, symbological, symptomatic,
     symptomatologic, symptomatological, tropological, typical