tests
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/tests/
English
Definitions
noun
- 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.
verb
- To challenge.“Climbing the mountain tested our stamina.”
- 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.“to test the soundness of a principle; to test the validity of an argument”
- (academics) To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).
noun
- A witness.
verb
- To attest (a document) legally, and date it.
- To make a testament, or will.