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assayer
Variant of assay
noun
- an examination or testing
- the analysis of an ore, alloy, drug, etc. to determine the nature, proportion, or purity of the ingredients
- a substance to be thus tested or analyzed
- the result or report of such an analysis
- Now Rare an attempt
transitive verb
- to make an assay of; test; analyze
- to attempt
intransitive verb
to be shown by analysis to contain a specified proportion of some component: this ore assays high in gold
Related Forms:
- assayer noun
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