post mortem
UK/ˌpəʊs(t)ˈmɔːtəm//ˌpoʊs(t)ˈmɔɹtəm/
post mortem adjective: after death.
Adjective
post mortem (not comparable)
Adverb
post mortem (not comparable)
- Occurring after death.
- The injuries were found to have been caused post mortem.
- Synonyms:
- posthumously
Noun
post mortem (plural post mortems)
- An investigation of a corpse to determine the cause of death.
- Nor had the post mortem on Newson's body revealed any illness or other physical condition that might have prevented him from applying the brake, although after four days in the oven-like heat of the wreckage, the body was so badly decomposed as to make any reliable post mortem results unlikely.2025 February 19, Mike Lewis, “Tragedy at Moorgate”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 59, about the Moorgate tube crash
- Any investigation after the conclusion of an activity, particularly when said activity produces an unwanted outcome.
- Each user-visible outage or SLA violation should be followed by a postmortem and conclude with implementation of the recommendations in the postmortem report.2014 September 3, Thomas A. Limoncelli, Strata R. Chalup, Christina J. Hogan, The Practice of Cloud System Administration (Designing and Operating Large Distributed Systems; 2), Addison-Wesley, page...
- After a serious delay there is often a post mortem on what happened, but this is usually in-house.2019 October, Ian Walmsley, “Cleaning up”, in Modern Railways, page 44
- Synonyms:
- debriefing, AAR
- At Cambridge, a second examination for those who were "plucked" or failed in the first.
post mortem meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Malay
post mortem in Hindi
- occurring after death — see also posthumously
- मरणोत्तर marṇottar
- investigation of a corpse to determine the cause of death; an autopsy
- शवपरीक्षा śavparīkṣā, पोस्टमार्टम posṭmārṭam
post mortem in Tamil
- பிண ஆராய்வு, பிணப்பகுப்பாய்வு, பிரேத பரிசோதனை, இறப்பாய்வு, மரணத்தின்பின்
post mortem in Malayalam
- മരണശേഷം സംഭവിക്കുന്നത്, മൃതശരീരപരിശോധന, മരണകാരണമറിയാൻ ശവശരീരം പരിശോധിക്കുക, ഒരു ഓട്ടോപ്സി
post mortem in Malay
- occurring after death — see also posthumously
- pascanilai
- investigation after something considered unsuccessful
- pascanilai
More languagesFewer languages
- post mortem in Persian
- پس از مرگ pas az marg, کالبدگشایی kâlbod-gošâyi, گذشتهسنجی gozašte-sanji, پسکاوی pas-kâvi
Synonyms of post mortem
Antonyms
Forms of post mortem
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | postmortem |
| alternative form | post-mortem |
| Noun | |
| plural | post mortems |
Origin of post mortem
From Latin post (“afterwards”) + mortem, from mors (“death”).
Words formed from post mortem
Questions about post mortem
- What does post mortem mean?
- Post mortem means after death.
- What is post mortem in Hindi?
- Post mortem in Hindi is मरणोत्तर (marṇottar), शवपरीक्षा (śavparīkṣā), पोस्टमार्टम (posṭmārṭam). See Post mortem meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is post mortem?
- Post mortem can be an adjective, an adverb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce post mortem?
- Post mortem is pronounced /ˌpəʊs(t)ˈmɔːtəm/ (UK).
Words near post mortem in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: post mortem (page history and authors); post mortem (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); post mortem (Malayalam Wiktionary) (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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