"sanity check" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "sanity checks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "sanity check (plural sanity checks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A check to make sure that something does not contain elementary mistakes or impossibilities and is not based on invalid assumptions."
      ],
      "id": "en-sanity_check-en-noun-xOBoc8vp",
      "links": [
        [
          "check",
          "check"
        ],
        [
          "make sure",
          "make sure"
        ],
        [
          "elementary",
          "elementary"
        ],
        [
          "mistake",
          "mistake"
        ],
        [
          "impossibilities",
          "impossibility"
        ],
        [
          "invalid",
          "invalid"
        ],
        [
          "assumption",
          "assumption"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "reality check"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "sanity test"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "an act of checking that something does not contain elementary mistakes or impossibilities",
          "word": "järkevyystarkastus"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "an act of checking that something does not contain elementary mistakes or impossibilities",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "test de plausibilité"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "an act of checking that something does not contain elementary mistakes or impossibilities",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "contrôle de plausibilité"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "an act of checking that something does not contain elementary mistakes or impossibilities",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Plausibilitätsprüfung"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "an act of checking that something does not contain elementary mistakes or impossibilities",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "kontrola poczytalności"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sanity check"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sanity checks",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sanity checking",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sanity checked",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sanity checked",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sanity check (third-person singular simple present sanity checks, present participle sanity checking, simple past and past participle sanity checked)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To perform a sanity check."
      ],
      "id": "en-sanity_check-en-verb-Ko1C~AQz",
      "links": [
        [
          "perform",
          "perform"
        ],
        [
          "sanity check",
          "#Noun"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sanity check"
}

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    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sanity checks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sanity check (plural sanity checks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "reality check"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A check to make sure that something does not contain elementary mistakes or impossibilities and is not based on invalid assumptions."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "check",
          "check"
        ],
        [
          "make sure",
          "make sure"
        ],
        [
          "elementary",
          "elementary"
        ],
        [
          "mistake",
          "mistake"
        ],
        [
          "impossibilities",
          "impossibility"
        ],
        [
          "invalid",
          "invalid"
        ],
        [
          "assumption",
          "assumption"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "sanity test"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "an act of checking that something does not contain elementary mistakes or impossibilities",
      "word": "järkevyystarkastus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "an act of checking that something does not contain elementary mistakes or impossibilities",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "test de plausibilité"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "an act of checking that something does not contain elementary mistakes or impossibilities",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "contrôle de plausibilité"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "an act of checking that something does not contain elementary mistakes or impossibilities",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Plausibilitätsprüfung"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "an act of checking that something does not contain elementary mistakes or impossibilities",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "kontrola poczytalności"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sanity check"
}

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    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sanity checks",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sanity checking",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sanity checked",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sanity checked",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sanity check (third-person singular simple present sanity checks, present participle sanity checking, simple past and past participle sanity checked)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To perform a sanity check."
      ],
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        [
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          "perform"
        ],
        [
          "sanity check",
          "#Noun"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sanity check"
}