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trial

n. (law) legal proceedings consisting of the judicial examination of issues by a competent tribunal; "most of these complaints are settled before they go to trial"

trial

n. (law) the determination of a person's innocence or guilt by due process of law; "he had a fair trial and the jury found him guilty"

trial

n. a competition in rallying

test

n. the act of undergoing testing; "he survived the great test of battle"; "candidates must compete in a trial of skill"

run, test

n. the act of testing something; "in the experimental trials the amount of carbon was measured separately"; "he called each flip of the coin a new trial"

test, tryout

n. trying something to find out about it; "a sample for ten days free trial"; "a trial of progesterone failed to relieve the pain"

visitation, cross, tribulation

n. an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event; "his mother-in-law's visits were a great trial for him"; "life is full of tribulations"; "a visitation of the plague"

test, model, pilot, experimental

adj. of the nature of or undergoing an experiment; "an experimental drug"

analysis

n. an investigation of the component parts of a whole and their relations in making up the whole

survey, study

n. a detailed critical inspection

analysis

n. an investigation of the component parts of a whole and their relations in making up the whole

survey, study

n. a detailed critical inspection

investigation, research, inquiry, enquiry

n. a search for knowledge; "their pottery deserves more research than it has received"

investigation, probe, probing

n. an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities; "there was a congressional probe into the scandal"

analysis, analytic thinking

n. the abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations

trouble

n. an event causing distress or pain; "what is the trouble?"; "heart trouble"

hardship, adversity

n. a state of misfortune or affliction; "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship"

difficulty

n. a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome; "grappling with financial difficulties"

disaster, tragedy, calamity, catastrophe, cataclysm

n. an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster"

misfortune, bad luck

n. unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event

suffering, woe

n. misery resulting from affliction

hurt, torture, torment, suffering, agony

n. feelings of mental or physical pain

ordeal

n. a severe or trying experience

hardship

n. something that causes or entails suffering; "I cannot think it a hardship that more indulgence is allowed to men than to women"- James Boswell; "the many hardships of frontier life"

crucible, melting pot

n. a vessel made of material that does not melt easily; used for high temperature chemical reactions

affliction

n. a state of great suffering and distress due to adversity

misfortune, bad luck, ill luck

n. an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes

adversity

n. a stroke of ill fortune; a calamitous event; "a period marked by adversities"

probationary, provisional, provisionary, tentative

adj. under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon; "probationary employees"; "a provisional government"; "just a tentative schedule"

notional, hypothetical, speculative, hypothetic

adj. not based on fact or investigation; "a notional figure of cost helps in determining production costs"; "speculative knowledge"

confirmable, verifiable

adj. capable of being tested (verified or falsified) by experiment or observation

experiential, existential

adj. derived from experience or the experience of existence; "the rich experiential content of the teachings of the older philosophers"- Benjamin Farrington; "formal logicians are not concerned with existential matters"- John Dewey

experimental, data-based, observational

adj. relying on observation or experiment; "experimental results that supported the hypothesis"

semiempirical

adj. relying to some extent on observation or experiment

trial-and-error

adj. trying out various means or theories until error is satisfactorily reduced or eliminated; "he argued that all learning is a trial-and-error process that resembles biological evolution"

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