sanity check

English

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.
    Synonym: sanity test
    Near-synonyms: reality check; sniff test

Translations

See also

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.

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.