inspector

Etymology

From Latin īnspector, from īnspiciō.

noun

1. A person employed to inspect something.
   Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16.[…]There are no inspectors, no exams until the age of 18, no school league tables, no private tuition industry, no school uniforms.[…] 2013-07-19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30
2. (law enforcement) A police officer ranking below superintendent.
3. (computing) A software tool used to examine something.
   Chrome has a built-in development tool called the Chrome Inspector. You can use it to examine the HTML elements in a web page; review what resources — or files, cookies, and databases — are active; follow network activity; […] 2011, Adam McDaniel, HTML5, page 166
   After that, with the help of the disk inspector, you can at any time compare the status of programs and system disk areas with the original one. 2020, Anatoly Belous, Vitali Saladukha, Viruses, Hardware and Software Trojans, page 112