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inspexion

inspexion is the obsolete spelling of inspection.

Meaning of inspection

Noun

inspection (countable and uncountable, plural inspections)

  1. The act of examining something, often closely.
    • Upon closer inspection, the animal turned out to be a dolphin, not a shark!
  2. An organization that checks that certain laws or rules are obeyed.
    • The inspection fined the restaurant's owner because the kitchen was dirty.

Origin of inspexion

Cognate of the perfect tense inflexions of Latin inspicio; compare connexion.

Questions about inspexion

What is inspexion the obsolete spelling of?
Inspexion is the obsolete spelling of inspection.

Words near inspexion in the dictionary

  1. insperses
  2. inspersion
  3. inspersions
  4. inspeximus
  5. inspeximuses
  6. inspexion
  7. insphere
  8. insphered
  9. inspheres
  10. insphering
  11. inspin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: inspexion (page history and authors); inspection (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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