Test \Test\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tested}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Testing}.] 1. (Metal.) To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
2. 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.
Experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution. --Washington.
3. (Chem.) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent; as, to test a solution by litmus paper.
4. To administer a test[8] to (someone) for the purpose of ascertaining a person's knowledge or skill; especially, in academic settings, to determine how well a student has learned the subject matter of a course of instruction. [PJC]
Each disk array is now tested for up to 24 days. While IBM remains a fierce rival, with 52 per cent of the mainframe storage market, other large computer concerns buy in products from EMC.
Under the 1989 law, which San Francisco Municipal Court began enforcing Tuesday, anyone convicted of prostitution or solicitation must be tested for the HIV virus and receive counseling.
Every venue is completed, tested and polished.
Initially they poured port wine into three lead crystal decanters and over the next four months periodically tested the wine for lead levels.
'We have tested the database with some of our international collaborators but I guess it will take a few months before everyone gets used to it.' As a point of principle, Ceph and Genethon will not try to patent the map or any of the information in it.
Last year, Mobil brought in another substantial well in the High Island field, one that tested at a rate equivalent to 9,300 barrels of oil a day.
An identification system that was originally devised for sheep-tagging is being tested in airport baggage handling systems. Magellan Technology, an Australian company, has developed a radio frequency-based device that recognises encoded tags.
It is not known if the boy has been tested for the virus. Lawyers say they are bound by state law not to discuss the case outside the courtroom.
An operator for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation described the more hopeful environment: "Previously, people might say, `Why be tested?
A sheriff's spokesman said samples of the blood were being tested.
The operator, Thomas Connor, fled the control tower after the January 1988 accident in Chester, Pa., and later tested positive for marijuana and small traces of cocaine and methamphetamine.
Now, with Du Pont's help, he has redesigned the casing, and new cables are being tested on a rig owned by Du Pont's Conoco Inc.
A gynecologist testified Wednesday that he was unaware that blood that had been tested for the AIDS virus was available when he unknowingly gave a patient tainted blood that gave her the deadly disease.
Plant equipment was repaired without technical supervisors and was not tested before being put into service despite serious defects, the newspaper said.
The Soviets have said they intend to build large structures in space for research, and the techniques and materials the cosmonauts tested Friday should help plan such projects.
The singer's desire to let people see the "real" Bobby Brown was tested by the title track.
The BRAT (or Baylor Rapid Autologous Transfusion) device has been clinically tested for three years to keep patients from contracting hepatitis or AIDS from transfused blood.
Commander Rick Hauck and his four crewmates, wearing new partial pressure suits, switched dials, tested communications, monitored systems and followed all procedures scheduled during the final two hours of an actual countdown.
The three-judge panel agreed that the EPA must make adjustments to reflect that the agency tested cars with about 4,000 miles on them in 1975, and as much as 10,000 miles in later years.
He tested it with the help of Tokyo University's seismology department.
But the most cost-effective solution is to go nuclear." India tested a nuclear device in 1974 but insisted it was for peaceful purposes.
The latter system is being tested by the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Sacramento Bee, the Christian Science Monitor and several other newspapers.
All of the vehicles tested were 1987 models.
The devices will be the sixth and seventh tested this year at the Nevada site.
Some will involve retrieving a tested model and refiring it.
Rhoden has acknowledged Christian has no symptoms of AIDS and tested negative for the virus.
The products tested by such laboratories range from electrical appliances to cosmetics.
The motorman who operated a subway train during a fatal derailment this week tested positive for cocaine, and federal investigators Friday found problems with other cars that run the same underground line.
Earlier this year, the FDA said a new smokeless cigarette called Favor would have to be tested by the government before it could be sold.
A spokesman for Ashland said the company tested workers at the two plants and determined that none had been harmed.