prover
noun
any of various automated devices, programs, or systems used to prove or test the quality or accuracy of something, especially of a meter.
provers
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pluralof prover.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The painter known to many as Lucian Freud’s one-time muse writes of her own muse, her mother, and provers herself a masterful writer as well.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2020
When taken by provers in actual toxic doses the tincture, or the fresh juice, has induced sore throat, feverishness, and a dry, red, hot skin, just as if symptomatic of scarlet fever.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
When experienced by two provers, and not often repeated, the symptom is recorded in common type.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
In these provers there soon followed a sense of fear, with pain about the heart, and accelerated pulse.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
Just such a totality of symptoms has been recorded by provers after taking the fungus for some length of time in toxical quantities.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
