n. The act of adjudicating, of reaching a judgement.
n. A judgment or sentence.
n. The decision upon the question of whether the debtor is a bankrupt.
n. The process of identifying the type of material or device that set off an alarm and assessing the potential threat with corresponding implications for the need to take further action.
n. A process by which land is attached as security or in satisfaction of a debt.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The act of adjudicating; the act or process of trying and determining judicially.
n. A deliberate determination by the judicial power; a judicial decision or sentence.
n. The decision upon the question whether the debtor is a bankrupt.
n. A process by which land is attached security or in satisfaction of a debt.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The act of adjudicating; the act or process of determining or adjudging; a passing of judgment.
n. In law: A judicial sentence; judgment or decision of a court. The act of a court declaring an ascertained fact: as, an adjudication of bankruptcy.
n. In Scots law, the diligence or process by which land is attached in security for or in payment of a debt.
WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
n. the final judgment in a legal proceeding; the act of pronouncing judgment based on the evidence presented
Word Usage
"listener, so presenter Tim Harford asked software designer Mike Thelan, who runs Zyzzyva, a word adjudication programme which is used at various Scrabble tournaments, to crunch the numbers."