definitive test
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There are long waiting times to see a specialist allergist for a definitive test.
From BBC • Sep. 27, 2023
Because the equation doesn’t test kidney function directly, its developers compared its results with kidney filtration rates measured using a more definitive test, based on a radioactive tracer, that is too complex to perform routinely.
From Science Magazine • Jul. 22, 2021
That is your definitive test to ignore the matter.
From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2017
But the primary aims of the pilot study—typical for initial studies—were not intended as a definitive test of the game’s effectiveness.
From Scientific American • Nov. 2, 2015
This was important in the long term, because in the nineteenth century it would provide a definitive test of whether light does travel as a wave or whether it travels as a stream of particles.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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