Tests dictionary definition

She was able to decipher some of it after all the tests she'd been through.
The results of some comparative tests published by Ewing (Proc. Inst.
Tests of a sample supplied by Messrs.
Parshall quotes tests of six samples of iron, described as of good quality, which showed an average hysteresis loss of 3070 ergs per c.cm.
The third column shows the relative amount of hysteresis deduced by Ewing as a general mean from actual tests of many samples (Journ.