Test

A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.

Examination or trial by the cupel; hence, any critical examination or decisive trial; as, to put a man's assertions to a test.

Means of trial; as, absence is a test of love.

That with which anything is compared for proof of its genuineness; a touchstone; a standard.

Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment; ground of admission or exclusion.

Judgment; distinction; discrimination.

A reaction employed to recognize or distinguish any particular substance or constituent of a compound, as the production of some characteristic precipitate; also, the reagent employed to produce such reaction; thus, the ordinary test for sulphuric acid is the production of a white insoluble precipitate of barium sulphate by means of some soluble barium salt.

To refine, as gold or silver, 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; as, to test the soundness of a principle; to test the validity of an argument.

To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent; as, to test a solution by litmus paper.

A witness.

To make a testament, or will.

Alt. of Testa

a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge; "when the test was stolen the professor had to make a new set of questions"

put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to; "This approach has been tried with good results"; "Test this recipe"

a hard outer covering as of some amoebas and sea urchins

the act of testing something; "in the experimental trials the amount of carbon was measured separately"; "he called each flip of the coin a new trial"

undergo a test; "She doesn't test well"

examine someone's knowledge of something; "The teacher tests us every week"; "We got quizzed on French irregular verbs"