Of or pertaining to preparation, having the purpose of making something or someone ready, preparative.
A session in which a product, piece of equipment, or system is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
An examination, given often during the academic term.
A challenge, trial.
A Test match.
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A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
Testa; seed coat.
The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins.
To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).
To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.
To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
To be shown to be by test.
To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try.
To challenge.