"sanity check" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: sanity checks [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} sanity check (plural sanity checks)
  1. A check to make sure that something does not contain elementary mistakes or impossibilities and is not based on invalid assumptions. Synonyms: sanity test Translations (an act of checking that something does not contain elementary mistakes or impossibilities): järkevyystarkastus (Finnish), test de plausibilité [masculine] (French), contrôle de plausibilité [masculine] (French), Plausibilitätsprüfung [feminine] (German), kontrola poczytalności [feminine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-sanity_check-en-noun-xOBoc8vp Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Polish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 94 6 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 86 14 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 90 10 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 94 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 87 13 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 81 19 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 88 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 83 17

Verb

Forms: sanity checks [present, singular, third-person], sanity checking [participle, present], sanity checked [participle, past], sanity checked [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} sanity check (third-person singular simple present sanity checks, present participle sanity checking, simple past and past participle sanity checked)
  1. To perform a sanity check.
    Sense id: en-sanity_check-en-verb-Ko1C~AQz

Inflected forms

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