0 present participle of ascertain
1 to discover something:
The police have so far been unable to ascertain the cause of the explosion.
[ + question word ] Have you ascertained whether she's coming or not?
[ + that ] I ascertained that no one could overhear us before I told Otto the news.
Some attention needs to be given to incorporating a wider range of methods for ascertaining subjects in order to obtain more representative samples.
An evaluation of the family history method for ascertaining psychiatric disorders.
Assessments of the initial plausibility of such theories basically involve ascertaining whether they are the products of sound abductive reasoning.
Significantly, pain appears in the one domain where legal and religious authorities cooperated - the ascertaining of truth when no direct evidence was available.
In scientific methodology, the place of prediction in ascertaining the empirical adequacy of scientific theories has been emphasized at the expense of their explanatory value.
The analysis of the top-view sequence focused on ascertaining the significant scales of a standing cross-vortex tube and the changes with time of its shape.
Items drawn from the depression and mania sections were adapted so that, rather than ascertaining episodic symptoms, they assessed for the nonepisodic presentation of symptoms.
In this second study, we directly examine the role of one methodological factor - the use of proband informant reports in ascertaining relative diagnosis.
