testing room
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2.8
- noun
:
sala de pruebas
- This is the testing room for my very latest and greatest invention: Television Chocolate.
- enter the testing room
Examples
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Upon arriving at a local university, participants were greeted by a research assistant and escorted to a testing room.
Academic text (2002) -
Participants enter a little testing room and sit down at a computer.
Academic text (2010) -
Individual sessions were completed first in a quiet testing room on the school campus and lasted approximately 20 minutes.
Academic text (2015) -
Data were collected within two settings: the participants' regular classroom and a small testing room.
Academic text (2014) -
In last year's pilot, I had twenty-five students in my testing room during the writing portion.
Fiction book (2001) -
The temperature in the testing room should be minus 15 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Each participant was assigned randomly to a testing room where one of the three melodies would be used.
Academic text (2011) -
Upon entering the testing room and providing their consent, participants (tested in groups) completed a questionnaire packet containing five sections.
Academic text (2009) -
When brought to the eye-tracking testing room, the student was asked to sit in a chair approximately 50-55 cm from the computer monitor and to place his or her chin on a chin rest used to stabilize the head during tracking.
Academic text (2013) -
In the quiet testing room, students focused intently on their final exams.
Synonyms
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1.6
A room or building where people do science experiments
18
3.5
A place where scientists do experiments to learn about the world
11
2.8
A room in a school or research building where people do experiments
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3.7
A place where scientists do experiments to learn about science
3
2.9
A room where people do chemistry experiments and teach chemistry
2
3.2
A room with tools and machines for doing experiments about matter and energy
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3.2
A room or building where people do experiments, research, and teach science
1
4.1
A room or building with equipment for doing experiments and teaching physics
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2.5
A room used for exams or experiments
How Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a room in which examinations, experiments, or assessments are carried out' is transparently derived from combining 'testing' (conducting trials or assessments) with 'room' (an indoor space). This is a straightforward compositional noun phrase and follows common cross-linguistic patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The compound testing room comes from the simple idea of a place for tests: testing (doing an exam or experiment) and room (a space to work). So imagine a quiet space where people bring samples or students for checks, which is why it means 'a room where examinations, experiments, or assessments are carried out'.