Definition of Test

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Definition of Test

Test

A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.

Examination or trial by the cupel; hence, any critical examination or decisive trial; as, to put a man's assertions to a test.

Means of trial; as, absence is a test of love.

That with which anything is compared for proof of its genuineness; a touchstone; a standard.

Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment; ground of admission or exclusion.

Judgment; distinction; discrimination.

A reaction employed to recognize or distinguish any particular substance or constituent of a compound, as the production of some characteristic precipitate; also, the reagent employed to produce such reaction; thus, the ordinary test for sulphuric acid is the production of a white insoluble precipitate of barium sulphate by means of some soluble barium salt.

To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to subject to cupellation.

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.

To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent; as, to test a solution by litmus paper.

A witness.

To make a testament, or will.

Alt. of Testa

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Test Quotations

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
Winston Churchill

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
Mohandas Gandhi

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
Benjamin Franklin

All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
Erma Bombeck

The perception of beauty is a moral test.
Henry David Thoreau

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
Lou Holtz

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
George S. Patton

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
Ansel Adams

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
Edgar Allan Poe

Test Translations

test in Afrikaans is eksamen, probeer, navorsing, toets, aanpak, poging
test in Dutch is examen, keuring, onderzoek
test in Finnish is koettaa
test in French is essayer, test, examen, tester
test in Italian is prova, esamino, provare, prova
test in Latin is probatur, experior (experiri; expertus )

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