testing
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɛs.tɪŋ/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛstɪŋ
Adjective
testing (comparative more testing, superlative most testing)
- 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)
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
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Derived terms
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
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:testing.
Indonesian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈt̪ɛst̪ɪŋ]
- Hyphenation: tès‧ting
Noun
testing (first-person possessive testingku, second-person possessive testingmu, third-person possessive testingnya)
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.
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