postmortem
/pohst-MOR-tum/nounan examination after death; an analysis of a finished event
“The postmortem traced the outage to one expired certificate.”
- Synonyms
- autopsy, review, analysis
- Root
- mort- (death)
- Memory hook
- post (after) + mortem (death): the look-back after the end.
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