Tanım
•viva voce (for a doctorate)
Diğer Dillerde
disputation · defense (of a thesis, of a dissertation, for a PhD, etc)
çekim: çoğul Disputationen · tamlayan Disputationen
köken: Ultimately from Latin disputatio.
thesis defense (public presentation in which a doctoral candidate defends his thesis towards an opponent)
çekim: çoğul väitöstilaisuudet · tamlayan väitöstilaisuuden
köken: väitös + tilaisuus
aile: tohtorinväitöstilaisuus
Etimoloji
From soutenir + -ance, cf. the present participle soutenant. Present in Old French as sustenance. Cf. also Late and Medieval Latin sustinentia (“support; endurance”).