inspection
/ɪnˈspekʃən/ noun [C, U]Definition
OFFICIAL › an official visit to a building or organization to check that everything is correct and legal: Fire officers carried out an inspection of the building.
EXAMINATION › when you look at something carefully: On closer inspection (= when looked at more carefully), the painting was discovered to be a fake.
(Definition of inspection noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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