interrogation

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=ter=ro=ga=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

interrogation, n. [L. interrogatio: cf. F. interrogation.].

•  The act or process of interrogating or questioning; examination by questions; an instance of interrogating; inquiry.  [1913 Webster]
•  A question put; an inquiry.  [1913 Webster]
•  A point, mark, or sign, thus [?], indicating that the sentence with which it is connected is a question. It is used to express doubt, or to mark a query. Usually called a question mark; called also interrogation point.  [1913 Webster]

  " In works printed in the Spanish language this mark is not only placed at the end of an interrogative sentence, but is also placed, inverted [as thus ("  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

interrogation, n.
1 the act or an instance of interrogating; the process of being interrogated.
2 a question or enquiry.

Idiom

interrogation point (or mark etc.) = question mark.

Derivative

interrogational adj.

Etymology

ME f. F interrogation or L interrogatio (as INTERROGATE)

THESAURUS

interrogation

Socratic method, asking, bone of contention, bringing into question, catechetical method, catechism, catechization, catechizing, challenge, cross-examination, cross-interrogatory, cross-question, debating point, demand, dispute, examination, feeler, grilling, inquiring, inquiry, inquisition, interpellation, interrogative, interrogatory, investigation, issue, leader, leading question, moot point, point at issue, point in question, probing, problem, pumping, query, querying, question, question at issue, question mark, questioning, quiz, quizzing, quodlibet, seeking, third degree, topic, trial balloon, vexed question

ROGET THESAURUS

interrogation

Inquiry

N inquiry, request, search, research, quest, pursuit, examination, review, scrutiny, investigation, indagation, perquisition, perscrutation, pervestigation, inquest, inquisition, exploration, exploitation, ventilation, sifting, calculation, analysis, dissection, resolution, induction, Baconian method, strict inquiry, close inquiry, searching inquiry, exhaustive inquiry, narrow search, strict search, study, scire facias, ad referendum, trial, questioning, interrogation, interrogatory, interpellation, challenge, examination, cross-examination, catechism, feeler, Socratic method, zetetic philosophy, leading question, discussion, reconnoitering, reconnaissance, prying, espionage, espionnage, domiciliary visit, peep behind the curtain, lantern of Diogenes, question, query, problem, desideratum, point to be solved, porism, subject of inquiry, field of inquiry, subject of controversy, point in dispute, matter in dispute, moot point, issue, question at issue, bone of contention, plain question, fair question, open question, enigma, knotty point, quodlibet, threshold of an inquiry, inquirer, investigator, inquisitor, inspector, querist, examiner, catechist, scrutator scrutineer scrutinizer, analyst, quidnunc, inquiry, inquisitive, requisitive, requisitory, catechetical, inquisitorial, analytic, in search of, in quest of, on the lookout for, interrogative, zetetic, all searching, undetermined, untried, undecided, in question, in dispute, in issue, in course of inquiry, under discussion, under consideration, under investigation, sub judice, moot, proposed, doubtful, quaere?, what?, why?, wherefore?, whence?, whither?, where?, how comes it?, how happens it?, how is it?, what is the reason?, what's the matter?, nicht wahr?, what's in the wind?, what on earth?, when?, who?.