forensic

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   used or applied in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law

   forensic photograph

2. 2
   adj

   Relating to the use of science and technology in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law.

   In this account of events, the cards were stacked against Clemons from the beginning. His appeal lawyers have argued that he was physically beaten into making a confession, the jury was wrongfully selected and misdirected, and his conviction largely achieved on individual testimony with no supporting forensic evidence presented.

3. 3
   adj

   Relating to, or appropriate for, courts of law; suitable or adapted to legal argumentation.

   Varus trusted implicitly […] to the interest which they affected to take in the forensic eloquence of their conquerors.

4. 4
   adj

   Precise, thorough, or highly meticulous, by analogy with a scientific legal investigation.

   A forensic account of history

5. 5
   adj

   Relating to forms of disability associated with criminal risk.

   a forensic learning disability

6. 6
   adj

   of, relating to, or used in public debate or argument

7. 7
   adj

   Relating to, or used in, debate or argument.

Etymology

From Latin forēnsis (“of the forum, public”) + -ic, from forum (“forum, marketplace”).