test
noun
the means by which the presence, quality, or genuineness of anything is determined; a means of trial.
testability
-
a word derived from
test.
Example Sentences
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They’re completely removed from testability in laboratory settings.
From The Verge ● Dec. 17, 2021
Physicists’ seeming lack of concern with empirical evidence and testability, Ellis argues, is bad not only for physics but for science as whole.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 1, 2018
He says autoethnographic studies cannot claim to have "falsifiability, testability, representability, extrapolation, prediction, and other conditions securing reliable scientific enquiry".
From BBC ● May 9, 2017
Hawking, on the other hand, works in a rarified subfield of gravitational physics, far removed from the realm of immediate testability.
From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2014
A vocal critic of string theory, Woit has long argued that this research area has attracted a disproportionate amount of funding, despite lying beyond the range of direct experimental testability.
From Nature ● Jun. 12, 2013
