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Having been inflicted or having occurred after death. examples
Occurring after death. examples
plural post mortems
An investigation of a corpse to determine the cause of death. examples
(figuratively, management) Any investigation after the conclusion of an activity, particularly when said activity produces an unwanted outcome. quotations examples
Each user-visible outage or SLA violation should be followed by a postmortem and conclude with implementation of the recommendations in the postmortem report.
2014 September 3, Thomas A. Limoncelli, Strata R. Chalup, Christina J. Hogan, The Practice of Cloud System Administration (Designing and Operating Large Distributed Systems; 2), Addison-Wesley, page 300
After a serious delay there is often a post mortem on what happened, but this is usually in-house.
2019 October, Ian Walmsley, “Cleaning up”, in Modern Railways, page 44
Grinspoon finishes with some sage advice on the best way to avoid greening out: "Keep the doses low and know yourself. If it happens to you, try to do a postmortem on what happened, like: 'Was there alcohol involved? Was there nicotine involved?' Was I overtired? Did I take five puffs when I usually take two puffs?'"
2022 April 20, Ross Buchanan, “Why You Sometimes Feel Sick or Vomit After Smoking Weed”, in Vice
(Britain, university slang, obsolete) At Cambridge, a second examination for those who were "plucked" or failed in the first.