Definition of test

• n. - A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
• n. - Examination or trial by the cupel; hence, any critical examination or decisive trial; as, to put a man's assertions to a test.
• n. - Means of trial; as, absence is a test of love.
• n. - That with which anything is compared for proof of its genuineness; a touchstone; a standard.
• n. - Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment; ground of admission or exclusion.
• n. - Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
• 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.
• v. t. - To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
• 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.
• v. t. - To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent; as, to test a solution by litmus paper.
• n. - A witness.
• v. i. - To make a testament, or will.
• n. - Alt. of Testa