test pattern — n. a standard pattern of lines, colors, etc. broadcast by a TV station, used to evaluate or adjust individual TV receivers for image quality … English World dictionary
Test card — A test card, also known as a test pattern in the UK, North America and Australia, is a television test signal, typically broadcast at times when the transmitter is active but no program is being broadcast (often at startup and closedown). Used… … Wikipedia
Test cricket — A Test match between South Africa and England in January 2005. The men wearing black trousers on the far right are the umpires. Test cricket is played in traditional white clothes and with a red ball. Test cricket is the longest form of the sport … Wikipedia
Test Match Special — (known as TMS ) is a radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (long wave), Five Live Sports Extra (digital) and the internet to the United Kingdom and (where broadcasting rights permit) the rest of the world, including England s winter tours to… … Wikipedia
standard — [adj] regular, approved accepted, authoritative, average, basic, boilerplate*, canonical, classic, common, customary, definitive, established, everyday, garden variety*, general, normal, official, orthodox, popular, prevailing, recognized,… … New thesaurus
test — 1. To prove; to try a substance; to determine the chemical nature of a substance by means of reagents. 2. A method of examination, as to determine the presence or absence of a definite disease or of some substance in any of the fluids, tissues,… … Medical dictionary
standard — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. emblem, ensign; criterion, measure, grade, exemplar, norm, canon, prototype, ethics. adj. regulation, normal, conventional. See conformity, rule, measurement, degree. Ant., nonstandard, substandard.… … English dictionary for students
Pattern (sewing) — In sewing and fashion design, a pattern is an original garment from which other garments of a similar style are copied, or the paper or cardboard templates from which the parts of a garment are traced onto fabric before cutting out and assembling … Wikipedia
Pattern coin — A pattern coin is a coin produced for the purpose of evaluating a proposed coin design, but which was not approved for general circulation. They are often off metal strikes, to proof standard or piedforts. Patterns are collected by many coin… … Wikipedia
test — Synonyms and related words: Bernreuter personality inventory, Binet Simon test, Brown personality inventory, Goldstein Sheerer test, IQ, IQ test, Kent mental test, Minnesota preschool scale, Olympic games, Olympics, Oseretsky test, Pap test,… … Moby Thesaurus