Testing
['testɪŋ] or ['tɛstɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the act of subjecting to experimental test in order to determine how well something works; 'they agreed to end the testing of atomic weapons'.
(noun.) an examination of the characteristics of something; 'there are laboratories for commercial testing'; 'it involved testing thousands of children for smallpox'.
Editor: Will--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Test
(n.) The act of testing or proving; trial; proof.
(n.) The operation of refining gold or silver in a test, or cupel; cupellation.
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Definition
n. the act of trying for proof: the operation of refining gold and silver: chemical analysis.—Testing clause in a Scotch deed the last clause which narrates when and where the parties signed the deed before what witnesses by whose hand written &c.
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Examples
- Only application tests them, and only testing confers full meaning and a sense of their reality. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Then began the long months of testing platinum wire. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- During all these years from 1831 to 1844 Mr. McCormick was diligently at work changing, testing and experimenting. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He was seated at this bench testing, figuring, and planning. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In testing the recipes follow the directions with rigid care, and practice on a small quantity of the article until you get it right. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- In testing dynamos at Goerck Street we had a long flat belt running parallel with the floor, about four inches above it, and travelling four thousand feet a minute. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Consequently the testing and sifting function of education only shows to which one of three classes an individual belongs. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Science has been defined in terms of method of inquiry and testing. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I was only testing you, and you ring true every time. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Only by a pupil's own observations, reflections, framing and testing of suggestions can what he already knows be amplified and rectified. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- At the end of this testing period, if no defect has developed, the motor is approved, placed upon a special truck and wheeled to the final assembling line. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It will doubtless take a long time to secure the perception that it holds equally as to the forming and testing of ideas in social and moral matters. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I had two Germans who were testing there, and both of them died of diphtheria, caught in the cellar, which was cold and damp. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- For if politics is merely a guerilla war between the bribed and the unbribed, then statecraft is not a human service but a moral testing ground. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- On testing the gases into which water is broken up by an electric current, we find them to be quite different. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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