Test \Test\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tested; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Testing.]
   1. (Metal.) To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or
      cupel; to subject to cupellation.
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   2. To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or
      quality of by experiment, or by some principle or
      standard; to try; as, to test the soundness of a
      principle; to test the validity of an argument.
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            Experience is the surest standard by which to test
            the real tendency of the existing constitution.
                                                  --Washington.
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   3. (Chem.) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent;
      as, to test a solution by litmus paper.
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   4. To administer a test[8] to (someone) for the purpose of
      ascertaining a person's knowledge or skill; especially, in
      academic settings, to determine how well a student has
      learned the subject matter of a course of instruction.
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	Testing \Test"ing\, n.
   1. The act of testing or proving; trial; proof.
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   2. (Metal.) The operation of refining gold or silver in a
      test, or cupel; cupellation.
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   Testing machine (Engin.), a machine used in the
      determination of the strength of materials, as iron,
      stone, etc., and their behavior under strains of various
      kinds, as elongation, bending, crushing, etc.
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	testing
     n 1: the act of subjecting to experimental test in order to
          determine how well something works; "they agreed to end
          the testing of atomic weapons"
     2: an examination of the characteristics of something; "there
        are laboratories for commercial testing"; "it involved
        testing thousands of children for smallpox"
     3: the act of giving students or candidates a test (as by
        questions) to determine what they know or have learned
        [syn: examination]

	

	54 Moby Thesaurus words for "testing":
   R and D, analytic, control, control experiment,
   controlled experiment, cut and try, cut-and-try, empirical,
   empiricism, examinational, examinatorial, examining, experiment,
   experimental, experimental design, experimental method,
   experimental proof, experimentalism, experimentation,
   explorational, explorative, exploratory, fact-finding, feeling,
   groping, heuristic, hit and miss, hit-or-miss, indagative,
   inspectional, inspectorial, investigational, investigative,
   investigatory, noble experiment, pilot, pragmatism, probationary,
   probative, probatory, proving, provisional,
   research and development, rule of thumb, tentative,
   tentative method, tentativeness, test, trial, trial and error,
   trial-and-error, trying, verificatory, zetetic

	

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