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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Relating to, providing, or constituting evidence.
  • adjective Conducted for the presentation or determination of evidence.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as evidential.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Furnishing evidence; asserting; proving; evidential.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective law Of or pertaining to evidence.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective pertaining to or constituting evidence
  • adjective serving as or based on evidence

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  • This word is used a lot in all the C.S.I. shows.

    July 7, 2012