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An examination of the characteristics of something
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testing
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Word definitions for testing in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Testing \Test"ing\, n. The act of testing or proving; trial; proof. (Metal.) The operation of refining gold or silver in a test, or cupel; cupellation. Testing machine (Engin.), a machine used in the determination of the strength of materials, as iron, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
difficult, tough n. The act of conducting a test; trialing, proving. v (present participle of test English)
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of subjecting to experimental test in order to determine how well something works; "they agreed to end the testing of atomic weapons" an examination of the characteristics of something; "there are laboratories for commercial testing"; "it involved ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES nuclear testing ▪ a nuclear testing area testing ground ▪ Eastern Europe has become a testing ground for high-speed privatization. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN ground ▪ The model was finished in 1794 and Murdock ...
Usage examples of testing.
In connection with all these lines of fuel testing, certain research work, both chemical and physical, is carried on to determine the true composition and properties of the different varieties of coal, the changes in the transformation from peat to lignite, from lignite to bituminous coal, and from bituminous to anthracite coal, and the chemical and physical processes in combustion.
The usual reason for antibody testing is as a check to see if somebody needs to renew their shots.
Also, there are situations where testing for the antibody to a pathogen suspected of causing a condition can make sense, given the right circumstances.
Hydrocarbon Oils -- Scotch Shale Oils -- Petroleum -- Vegetable and Animal Oils -- Testing and Adulteration of Oils -- Lubricating Greases -- Lubrication -- Appendices -- Index.
Australia, as in other Commonwealth nations, ballistics and blast testing on human cadavers is not allowed.
It was decked out with medical gear, urine and excreta reservoirs, decontamination kits, and testing paraphernalia.
But the instincts of our common humanity indignantly remonstrate against the testing of clumsy or unimportant hypotheses by prodigal experimentation, or MAKING THE TORTURE OF ANIMALS AN EXHIBITION TO ENLARGE A MEDICAL SCHOOL, or for the entertainment of students--not one in fifty of whom can turn it to any profitable account.
In 1986 researchers filed a patent application for a method of testing the levels of homocysteine, an amino acid, in the blood.
A bright lance was brought, and the mantled lord hefted it, testing its balance as he turned toward Bevan.
I asked the man at the cash register what he thought about the underground burst soon to be set off in the Manzanita Mountains, not too far away, now that the Russians had resumed testing.
Soldier walked his charger through very carefully, testing the marish with his lance as they went.
Frankie gently flexed and extended the knee, rocking the joint and testing for any abnormal movement, but there was none, pointing to a meniscal tear rather than any ligament injury.
Influence of Metalloids, Heat Treatment, Special Steels, Microstructure, Testing, and Specifications.
Parchment Paper and Parchment Slates -- Double and Triple Osmotic Parchment -- Utilising Waste Parchment Paper -- Parchmented Linen and Cotton -- Parchment Millboard -- Imitation Horn and Ivory from Parchment Paper -- Imitation Parchment Paper -- Artificial Parchment -- Testing the Sulphuric Acid.
It meant that under the licensing agreement between Felding-Roth Pharmaceuticals and Laboratoires Gironde-Chimie, American testing of Montayne would now begin.