test

1 any standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude or personality etc; "the test was standardized on a large sample of students" [syn: mental test, mental testing, psychometric test]

2 the act of testing something; "in the experimental trials the amount of carbon was measured separately"; "he called each flip of the coin a new trial" [syn: trial, run]

3 the act of undergoing testing; "he survived the great test of battle"; "candidates must compete in a trial of skill" [syn: trial]

4 trying something to find out about it; "a sample for ten days free trial"; "a trial of progesterone failed to relieve the pain" [syn: trial, trial run, tryout]

5 a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge; "when the test was stolen the professor had to make a new set of questions" [syn: examination, exam]

6 a hard outer covering as of some amoebas and sea urchins

1 put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to; "This approach has been tried with good results"; "Test this recipe" [syn: prove, try, try out, examine, essay]

2 test or examine for the presence of disease or infection; "screen the blood for the HIV virus" [syn: screen]

3 examine someone's knowledge of something; "The teacher tests us every week"; "We got quizzed on French irregular verbs" [syn: quiz]

4 show a certain characteristic when tested; "He tested positive for HIV"

5 achieve a certain score or rating on a test; "She tested high on the LSAT and was admitted to all the good law schools"

6 determine the presence or properties of (a substance)

7 undergo a test; "She doesn't test well"

see Test

English

Pronunciation

• /tɛst/, /tEst/
• Rhymes: -ɛst

Adjective

1. Of a test match

   His test average was nearly 100.

Noun

1. A challenge.
2. In the context of "Academics": An examination, given often during the academic term.
3. A session in which a product or piece of equipment is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
4. In the context of "normally “Test”}} A test match.

Test, TEST or Tester may refer to:

• Test (student assessment), an assessment intended to measure the respondents' knowledge or other abilities
• test (Unix), a Unix command for evaluating conditional expressions
• Test (biology), the shell of sea urchins and the shell of certain microorganisms
• TEST (x86 instruction), an x86 assembly language instruction
• River Test, England
• Andrew Martin or Test, a professional wrestler
• Experiment, part of the scientific method, to verify or falsify an expectation with an observation

People with the surname Tester

surname Tester

• Jon Tester, Democratic Junior Senator from Montana, USA
• Ralph Tester, head of a section at British codebreaking station Bletchley Park

See also

• Electronic test equipment
• Exam
• Fire test
• Legal tests
• List of tests
• Multimeter
• Psychological testing
• Primality test, as an example of a mathematical test
• Quality control
• Software testing - further categorized into functional testing, SIT, Load testing and UAT
• Statistical hypothesis testing
• Test-driven development
• Test match (disambiguation)
• Test method

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