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in question en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. Under consideration, under discussion.
   • The man in question just walked in.
   • The topic in question is not something that can be easily addressed due to its sensitivity.
   • Because large language models are trained on so much text, they provide good estimates of surprisal of words in context. Hence, a surprisal measure usually includes all factors that might affect the acceptability of a sentence, from word frequency to the plausibility of the meaning, to the structural frequency of the material in question. 2025, Edward A. F. Gibson, “Preliminaries: Components of Language Structure” (chapter 2), in Syntax: A Cognitive Approach, MIT Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 24:
   • The police officer told me the suspect in question was last seen on Swanston St.
   • When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper. 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
2. In doubt, under dispute.
   • The whole project is now in question.
   • The evidence has been called in question.

Forms

Translations (38)

nl onderhavig (under consideration or discussion) · it in questione (under consideration or discussion) · fi kyseenalainen (in doubt, under dispute) · cmn 不確定 /不确定 (in doubt, under dispute) · ru сомни́тельный (in doubt, under dispute) · de fraglich (in doubt, under dispute) · nl in kwestie (under consideration or discussion) · cmn 受到懷疑 /受到怀疑 (in doubt, under dispute) · es en tela de juicio (in doubt, under dispute) · pt em questão (under consideration or discussion) · de betreffend (under consideration or discussion) · hu kérdéses (in doubt, under dispute) · az sözügedən (under consideration or discussion) · da vedkommende (under consideration or discussion) · ca en qüestió (under consideration or discussion) · de infrage (stehend) (in doubt, under dispute) · es en entredicho (in doubt, under dispute) · es en cuestión (under consideration or discussion) · sh дотични (under consideration or discussion) · sh доведен у питање (in doubt, under dispute) · de besagt (under consideration or discussion) · hu szóban forgó (under consideration or discussion) · da pågældende (under consideration or discussion) · fr en question (under consideration or discussion) · ru обсуждаемый (under consideration or discussion) · ga i gceist (under consideration or discussion) · cmn 在爭論中 /在争论中 (in doubt, under dispute) · fr remis en question (in doubt, under dispute) · ja 問題の (under consideration or discussion) · ru рассматриваемый (under consideration or discussion) · cmn 討論中的 /讨论中的 (under consideration or discussion) · fi kyseinen (under consideration or discussion) · de fraglich (under consideration or discussion) · cmn 考慮中的 /考虑中的 (under consideration or discussion) · ru спо́рный (in doubt, under dispute) · hu kétséges (in doubt, under dispute) · ro în cauză (under consideration or discussion) · hu bizonytalan (in doubt, under dispute)