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

an act of checking that something does not contain elementary mistakes or impossibilities

• Finnish: järkevyystarkastus
• French: test de plausibilité m, contrôle de plausibilité m
• German: Plausibilitätsprüfung f
• Polish: kontrola poczytalności f

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

• sanity check on Wikipedia.Wikipedia