Test

A test is a way of checking something to see if it is true, or false, or if it is edible or not. If something can be tested, or finishes the tests correctly, it is testable. The Concise Oxford English Dictionary defines a test as: "a procedure intended to establish the quality, performance, or reliability of something".^[1]

A test is different from an experiment: Before a test is done, there is an expected result. The test is performed, to show this result. In an experiment, the outcome is open. Very often, tests are performed as part of an experiment.

1. ↑ Stevenson, Angus; Waite, Maurice (2011). Concise Oxford English Dictionary (Twelfth ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 1490. ISBN 978-0-19-960108-0.