testing

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun testing has 3 senses

testing(n = noun.act) - the act of subjecting to experimental test in order to determine how well something works; "they agreed to end the testing of atomic weapons"

is a kind of

experiment

experimentation

Derived form verb test₁

testing(n = noun.act) - an examination of the characteristics of something; "there are laboratories for commercial testing"; "it involved testing thousands of children for smallpox"

is a kind of

examination

scrutiny

has particulars: screening

Derived forms verb test₆, verb test₄

testing(n = noun.act) examination - the act of giving students or candidates a test (as by questions) to determine what they know or have learned;

is a kind of investigating, investigation

has particulars: 11-plus, eleven-plus

Derived form verb test₃

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CIDE DICTIONARY

testing, n.

The act of testing or proving; trial; proof. [1913 Webster]
The operation of refining gold or silver in a test, or cupel; cupellation. [1913 Webster]

Testing machine (Engin.), a machine used in the determination of the strength of materials, as iron, stone, etc., and their behavior under strains of various kinds, as elongation, bending, crushing, etc.

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THESAURUS

testing

R and D, analytic, control, control experiment, controlled experiment, cut and try, cut-and-try, empirical, empiricism, examinational, examinatorial, examining, experiment, experimental, experimental design, experimental method, experimental proof, experimentalism, experimentation, explorational, explorative, exploratory, fact-finding, feeling, groping, heuristic, hit and miss, hit-or-miss, indagative, inspectional, inspectorial, investigational, investigative, investigatory, noble experiment, pilot, pragmatism, probationary, probative, probatory, proving, provisional, research and development, rule of thumb, tentative, tentative method, tentativeness, test, trial, trial and error, trial-and-error, trying, verificatory, zetetic