Meaning

noun trying something to find out about it

noun any standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude or personality etc

noun a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge

originFrom 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…

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