A means of combating coronavirus by taking samples from individuals and instructing those who are infected to isolate themselves from others and provide details of their recent close contacts, who are also told to isolate.

(transitive) To try or experiment with (something or someone) in order to see if it works, is true, or is successful.

A trial; an experiment to see how or whether something works; the act of testing something out. / A placement test that allows someone to skip a course.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of test out

simple past tense and past participle of test out

plural of test out

(medicine) Synonym of Murphy's punch

present participle of field-test

Which has been tested on the battleground. / (figuratively) Which has been successfully put to the test in a real-life situation, in conditions of real use.

(computing) Any of a collection of statistical tests for gauging the randomness of a random number generator.