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111ARCEL, RAY — (1899–1994), U.S. boxing trainer. Arcel is considered the greatest trainer in the sport by virtue of having helped guide 20 boxers to 23 world championships from 1923 to 1982, and was called the first gentleman of fist fighting by sportswriter… …
112Immortality test — The Immortality test is a variation of the Turing test. It tests to see if the essential data elements of a person could be extracted and restored into a recreation of the original person. The extraction would be performed using advanced brain… …
113GRE Physics Test — The GRE physics test is an examination administered by the Educational Testing Service (ETS). The test attempts to determine the extent of the examinees understanding of fundamental principles of physics and their ability to apply them to problem …
114Subject matter expert Turing test — A subject matter expert Turing test is a variation of the Turing test where a computer system attempts to replicate an expert in a given field such as chemistry or marketing. This concept was described by Ray Kurzweil in his 2005 book The… …
115litmus test — noun a) A simple test for the acidity or alkalinity of a substance, using litmus paper. Temple, under its new coach, Ray Morrison, formerly of Vanderbilt, will be put to the blue litmus test Friday night when it takes on Georgetown. b) Any test… …
116liver function test — ▪ medicine any laboratory procedure that measures and assesses various aspects of liver function. Because of the diversity of liver function and the varied and complicated metabolic processes that may be affected by disease states,… …
117X-ray inspection — A form of nondestructive inspection in which a piece of photographic film is exposed by passing an X ray through a section of aircraft structure. Defects such as discontinuities within the material show up as a difference in the density of the… …
118Rubin's test — ▪ medicine diagnostic method for determining whether the fallopian tubes (fallopian tube) in the human female are occluded. (The fallopian tubes are slender hollow structures on each side of the uterus through which the eggs travel from the …
119dual energy x-ray absorptiometric scan — An imaging test that measures bone density (the amount of bone mineral contained in a certain volume of bone) by passing x rays with two different energy levels through the bone. It is used to diagnose osteoporosis (decrease in bone mass and… …
120dual x-ray absorptiometry — An imaging test that measures bone density (the amount of bone mineral contained in a certain volume of bone) by passing x rays with two different energy levels through the bone. It is used to diagnose osteoporosis (decrease in bone mass and… …
