test

1. n. A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement. Source: opted

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

3. n. Means of trial; as, absence is a test of love. Source: opted

4. n. That with which anything is compared for proof of its genuineness; a touchstone; a standard. Source: opted

5. n. Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment; ground of admission or exclusion. Source: opted

6. n. Judgment; distinction; discrimination. Source: opted

7. n. 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. Source: opted

8. v. t. To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to subject to cupellation. Source: opted

9. v. t. 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. Source: opted

10. v. t. To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent; as, to test a solution by litmus paper. Source: opted

11. n. A witness. Source: opted

12. v. i. To make a testament, or will. Source: opted

13. n. Alt. of Testa Source: opted

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