interrogation

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The act of questioning; examination by questions.
• noun A question put; an inquiry.
• noun Any proposition doubted or called in question in the disputations with which, during the prevalence of scholasticism, boys were exercised in the schools.
• noun See interrogation-point.
• noun Synonyms Query, Inquiry, etc. See question, n.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The act or process of interrogating or questioning; examination by questions; an instance of interrogating; inquiry.
• noun A question put; an inquiry.
• noun A point, mark, or sign, thus [?], indicating that the sentence with which it is connected is a question. It is used to express doubt, or to mark a query. Usually called a question mark; called also interrogation point.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun The act of interrogating or questioning; examination by questions; inquiry.
• noun A question put; an inquiry.
• noun A point, mark, or sign, thus ?, indicating that the sentence with which it is connected is a question. It is used to express doubt, or to mark a query. Called also interrogation point.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a transmission that will trigger an answering transmission from a transponder
• noun formal systematic questioning
• noun an instance of questioning
• noun a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply