testing

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛs.tɪŋ/

• Audio (UK):

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• Rhymes: -ɛstɪŋ

Adjective

testing (comparative more testing, superlative most testing)

1. Difficult; tough.
   • 2011 June 4, Phil McNulty, “England 2 - 2 Switzerland”, in BBC‎:

     England have now gone four games without a win at Wembley, their longest sequence without a victory in 30 years, and still have much work to do to reach Euro 2012 as they prepare for a testing trip to face Bulgaria in Sofia in September.

Noun

testing (countable and uncountable, plural testings)

1. The act of conducting a test; trialing, proving.
   • 2011, Emerson B. Powery, Immersion Bible Studies: Luke:

     The wilderness testings of Jesus prepare him for ministry in which such temptations and shortcuts will recur.

Hyponyms

• A/B testing
• alpha testing
• animal testing
• beta testing
• big bang testing
• black-box testing
• continuous testing
• DNA testing
• fuzz testing
• genetic testing
• gray-box testing
• grey-box testing
• hypothesis testing
• integration testing
• keyword-driven testing
• Kleenex testing
• model-based testing
• model-driven testing
• nuclear testing
• PAT testing
• portable appliance testing
• psychological testing
• reality testing
• regression testing
• risk-based testing
• sandwich testing
• sanity testing
• spark testing
• statistical hypothesis testing
• surge testing
• testing clause
• testing ground
• toxicology testing
• unit testing
• white-box testing
• wind tunnel testing

 

Translations

the act of conducting a test

Belarusian: тэсці́раванне n (tescíravannje) Czech: testování (cs) n Finnish: testaus (fi), koestus (fi) French: test (fr) m Italian: prova (it) f Polish: testowanie (pl) n Portuguese: teste (pt) Russian: тести́рование (ru) n (testírovanije) Spanish: prueba (es) f Turkish: test etme (tr) Ukrainian: тестува́ння n (testuvánnja)

References

• Testing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

testing

1. present participle and gerund of test

Derived terms

• testing effect
• testing, testing, testing testing

Anagrams

• setting, tingest

Cebuano

Etymology

From English testing, present participle of test, from Middle English test, teste, borrowed 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”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: tes‧ting

Verb

testing

1. to test someone or something

Noun

testing

1. a testing; the act of conducting a test

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:testing.

Indonesian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English testing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈt̪ɛst̪ɪŋ]
• Hyphenation: tès‧ting

Noun

testing (first-person possessive testingku, second-person possessive testingmu, third-person possessive testingnya)

1. testing.

   Synonyms: pengujian, percobaan

Further reading

• “testing” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.