(automotive) A paved track on which road vehicles can be tested. / (rail transport) A railway track for the purpose of testing trains.

A test for red-green color blindness, using a number of colored plates (Ishihara plates), each of which contains a circle of dots of various colors and sizes. Depending on the person's vision, certain dots within the pattern will appear to form recognizable numbers or shapes.

A test done to analyze someone's DNA

An early test using hot paraffin wax to take a cast of a suspect's hand, which was then sprayed with a reagent to gauge the presence of propellant particles indicating that the person had fired a gun.

(econometrics) A test used for testing a null hypothesis that an observable time series is stationary around a deterministic trend (i.e. trend-stationary) against the alternative of a unit root.

Synonym of Tukey's range test

(marketing) A form of market research in which members of the public are recruited and brought to a central location to provide feedback.

An individual test of a component, such as an electrical or mechanical device, that is performed with the component removed from its normal operating environment, notionally on a workshop bench.

To perform a bench test on.

(law) A test to determine whether an instrument qualifies as an "investment contract" for the purposes of the Securities Act of 1933: it must be "a contract, transaction or scheme whereby a person invests his money in a common enterprise and is led to expect profits solely from the efforts of the promoter or a third party".