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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
proving ground
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Chicago was becoming an influential proving ground for bands like Smashing Pumpkins.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All others are graduates of the Gold Coast Pro-Am Circuit, a summertime proving ground for aspiring tour players.
▪ It was a great proving ground.
▪ Special projects are also an excellent proving ground.
▪ The position required no athletic ability, but traditionally has served as a proving ground for Mississippi politicians.
▪ Warrior robots, juggernauts, and land raiders used the jungles as a proving ground.
Wiktionary
proving ground

n. 1 (context military English) A terrain or installation for testing weapons, military equipment, or tactics. 2 (context figurative English) A venue or project in which new technologies, methods or techniques are tested.

WordNet
proving ground

n. a workplace for testing new equipment or ideas

Wikipedia
Proving Ground (Star Trek: Enterprise)

__NOTOC__ "Proving Ground" is the thirteenth episode from the third season of the television series Star Trek: Enterprise. It's the sixty-fifth episode of the series, first airing on January 21, 2004.

Proving ground (disambiguation)

Proving ground is a facility for testing new technologies or tactics. These can be civilian or military.

Proving Ground may also refer to:

  • "Proving Ground" (Star Trek: Enterprise), a third season episode of Star Trek: Enterprise
  • "Proving Ground" (Stargate SG-1), a fifth season episode of Stargate SG-1
  • Tony Hawk's Proving Ground, the ninth game in the Tony Hawk's skateboarding series
  • Proving Ground, a television series airing on the G4 channel.
  • Endgame: Proving Ground - Game by Niantic Labs related to Endgame: The Calling
Proving ground

A proving ground (US), training area (Australia, Ireland, UK) or training centre (Canada) is a military installation or reservation where weapons or other military technology are experimented with or are tested, or where military tactics are tested.

While these types of facilities are usually military or government establishments, some civilian industries have their own proving grounds for testing prototypes and new technologies.

Proving Ground (TV series)

Proving Ground is an American reality television series that aired in the United States on G4. The series was hosted by Jackass cast member Ryan Dunn and video game journalist Jessica Chobot.

Usage examples of "proving ground".

Between are the barracks where the soldiers live, and part of the land is given over to a proving ground, where many of the big guns are taken to be tested.

He'd been a chemical weapons expert his whole professional life, having worked at the Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland and Dugway Proving Ground in Utah-but, well, this wasn't really chemical warfare.

They blundered into the radar field of the Proving Ground protection system and were driven out with laughter.

Outside the house, Robbie referred to it as the Disease Museum, a proving ground and display space for every device, simple or complex, that might somehow improve the life Lorraine had left.

As for real and famous persons I mention: I have them do nothing that they did not actually do when tested on this proving ground.

The Sisterhood had thought of it as a proving ground for those destined to survive on Dune.