English

Etymology

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛstə(r)

Noun

1. A person who administers a test, or a device used for testing.
2. A flat canopy over a bed etc.
3. 25 lashes, ie. strokes of a whip across a person's back as a punishment. (Reference: Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore, 1987, paperback 1996 ISBN 1-86046-150-6, chapter 12.)
4. A sample of perfume available in a shop for customers to try before they buy.

Synonyms

• Botany Bay dozen

French

Etymology 1

Verb

1. to test

Etymology 2

Verb

1. ...

• 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

• 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