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digital forensics

digital forensics noun: the analysis of digital media to detect forgery or manipulation.

Noun

digital forensics (uncountable)

  1. (forensics) The analysis of digital media to detect forgery or manipulation.
    • For more than two decades, Farid, 60, had been the world’s leading expert in the field of digital forensics, but in the last six months he’d stopped trusting his own eyes.2026 June 14, Eli Saslow, Erin Schaff, “The World’s Leading Deepfake Expert No Longer Trusts His Own Eyes”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Questions about digital forensics

What does digital forensics mean?
Digital forensics means the analysis of digital media to detect forgery or manipulation.
What part of speech is digital forensics?
Digital forensics is a noun.

Words near digital forensics in the dictionary

  1. Digital Era
  2. digital exhaust
  3. digital fatigue
  4. digital footprint
  5. digital footprints
  6. digital forensics
  7. digital gap
  8. digital gaps
  9. digital garden
  10. digital gardening
  11. digital gardenings

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