Definition of Diagnostic

used for figuring out what is wrong or needed

Examples of Diagnostic in a sentence

Ms. Taylor used the pretest as a diagnostic tool in order to determine which facts her students already knew about the Civil War so that she would not teach that information again. 🔊

Mechanics hooked up my car to a diagnostic machine to reassure me that my car’s transmission was not working properly and would need to be replaced. 🔊

Due to the medical diagnostic procedure, the nurse realized that the patient would need to have ten rounds of medicine in order to treat the identified disease. 🔊

While being evaluated on the job, the salesman’s boss operated a new diagnostic process that verified the amount of sales the employee made in a certain period of time. 🔊

Blood was analyzed through a diagnostic machine to figure out whether the patient was suffering from cancer or the flu. 🔊

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