a supposed test for witchcraft in which a hot iron was applied to the skin (or the tongue) - the skin of a witch would be unharmed

(mathematics) any statistical hypothesis test in which the test statistic has a chi-square distribution if the null hypothesis is true

(statistics) Any statistical hypothesis test in which the test statistic has a Student's t-distribution if the null hypothesis is true.

Synonym of Mull of Kintyre rule

plural of borax bead test

(US) A series of physical tasks, such as walking a straight line, used by police to determine whether a person is under the influence of alcohol.

(psychology) A test measuring a person's social cognitive ability to attribute false beliefs to others. A story is enacted with two dolls: Sally takes a marble and hides it in her basket, and Anne then transfers it to her own basket while Sally is absent. The participant is asked where Sally will expect to find the marble on returning.

(inorganic chemistry) An analytical technique in which a sample is heated in a sealed tube, volatile metals being removed by sublimation to a cooler part of the tube from where they can be removed and weighed

A feminist test for evaluating works of fiction by whether they have (i) at least one female character (ii) who has her own narrative arc (iii) which does not exist to support the narrative arc of a male character.

A test of a person's ability to form coherent mental pictures with very little visual information, involving identifying the features in simplified two-tone pictures of faces and distinguishing real faces from false ones.