definitive test
Example Sentences
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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
Aspelmeyer’s efforts to isolate gravitational forces between progressively smaller masses are a critical step toward such a definitive test.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 10, 2021
The new randomized trial was designed to be a definitive test.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 3, 2020
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
