test

/test/ · noun

Meaning

A challenge, trial.
A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
(academia) An examination, given often during the academic term.
A session in which a product or piece of equipment is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
(normally “Test”) A Test match.
The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins.
To challenge.
To refine (gold, silver, etc.) 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.
(academics) To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).
To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.
To be shown to be by test.
A witness.
To attest (a document) legally, and date it.
To make a testament, or will.
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