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interrogation

2 definitions • 3 examples
1
a process of asking someone a lot of questions for a long time in order to get information, sometimes using threats or violence:

Examples:

One by one they were taken for interrogation.
She was subjected to torture and lengthy interrogations.
2
the process of getting information from a computer or electronic device:

Examples:

the interrogation of a database file to produce a list of customers in a geographical area

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