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

There’s no definitive test for the disease, though evidence of the increased pressure is sometimes visible on an M.R.I.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 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

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