Meaning

A test conducted or given beforehand; a preliminary test conducted before the inception of an experiment or evaluation..

Definitions by Sense

1. A test conducted or given beforehand; a preliminary test conducted before the inception of an experiment or evaluation.
2. (transitive) To test beforehand or in advance.
3. (transitive, rare) To give evidence for beforehand or in advance.

Example Sentences

This procedure provided a foretest, inspection period, and aftertest, and each 5 underwent one such trial series.

Even if he had found positive transfer effects, one could have attributed the gain to the practice effect during the foretest rather than to the improvement of memory per se.

The children who made very low ascendancy scores in the foretest were then trained by the experimenter till they had complete mastery of certain play materials—blocks for building certain designs, a jigsaw puzzle, a picture book with its story—[…]

The instrument used in this study would be helpful to foretest advisees and hence would facilitate advisor's work in the direction of detecting maladjustments.

This indicates that probably Muslims foretested a greater importance in the diplomatic corps than the modern western states.

Word Forms

• foretests
• foretesting
• foretested

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Use foretest when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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