Test(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.
Test(v. t.)
- To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
Test(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.
Test(v. t.)
- To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent; as, to test a solution by litmus paper.