test

Meaning

Noun

1. A challenge, trial.
2. A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
3. An examination, given often during the academic term.
4. A session in which a product, piece of equipment, or system is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
5. A Test match.
6. The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins.
7. Testa; seed coat.
8. (obsolete) Judgment; distinction; discrimination.

Verb

1. To challenge, to put a strain on (something).
2. To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
3. To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try.
4. To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).
5. To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.
6. To be shown to be by test.
7. To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
8. (slang) To challenge (someone) to a fight.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To attest (a document) legally, and date it.
2. (obsolete) To make a testament, or will.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tɛst/

Etymology

From Middle English test, teste, from Old French test, teste (“an earthen vessel, especially a pot in which metals were tried”), from Latin testum (“the lid of an earthen vessel, an earthen vessel, an earthen pot”), from *terstus, past participle of the root *tersa (“dry land”). See terra, thirst. The examination sense came via metaphor of the metallurgical sense - the way a metallurgist puts to the test their gold, a teacher may put to the test their students' knowledge.

Sentences

For constant " k ", this is in the same complexity class as the Lucas-Lehmer test .