Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A piece of material adapted by size and shape to be tested in a testing-machine to determine its physical properties, such as strength, elastic limit, deformation under load, etc.; a test-bar.
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Examples
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Indeed, it took almost 20 years for a climber – an American, Alex Honnold – to try his Peak District test-piece, Gaia a grade easier than the Indian Face and climb it from the bottom to the top on his first attempt.
Johnny Dawes: 'It's about doing something that's fun… and impossible' 2012
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Heart racing, he locked the test-piece into the spee-gee; and that vital organ almost stopped beating entirely as the indicator needle went up and up and up'stopping at a full twenty two, and the scale went only to twenty four!
Gray Lensman Smith, E. E. 1950
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After the pots have been heated at 1,600°F. for about 5-1/4 hr., they are removed, and a scrap-section test-piece is quenched direct from the pot in mineral oil at _not more than_ 100°F.
The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel 1916
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A better test-piece could not have been selected for her début.
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Potato Head Blues - on which his stop-time chorus became a test-piece for aspiring young trumpeters - and West End Blues with its ingenious opening cadenza, its mellow vocal chorus and Armstrong's dramatic rise to a top 'C' that goes on for bar after bar.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Potato Head Blues - on which his stop-time chorus became a test-piece for aspiring young trumpeters - and West End Blues with its ingenious opening cadenza, its mellow vocal chorus and Armstrong's dramatic rise to a top 'C' that goes on for bar after bar.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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In 1989 he composed the test-piece "Dostaana" for Saaj Sammelan.
WN.com - Articles related to Emraan Hashmi discovers lady luck in young actresses 2010
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In 1989 he composed the test-piece "Dostaana" for Saaj Sammelan.
WN.com - Articles related to Emraan Hashmi discovers lady luck in young actresses 2010
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Repentance, an area test-piece which is exceptionally thick in this photo taken Saturday:
Little Bang Theory littlebangtheory 2010
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If, during your test-piece some blotching occurs, this may mean that you have to apply a wood conditioner first.
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