test bed
noun
: a vehicle (such as an airplane) used for testing new equipment (such as engines or weapons systems)
broadly
: any device, facility, or means for testing something in development
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This corps should serve as the test bed for employing existing European command and control, navigation, and intelligence satellites.
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Barry R. Posen, Foreign Affairs, 21 Apr. 2025
Then the test bed’s modulated X-ray source generates the X-ray photons these pulsars would emit, and the detector receives and time-stamps them.
—IEEE Spectrum, 4 June 2013
The keynote solidified Gemini’s presence beyond a mere test bed — t’s now embedded in products, packaged into subscriptions and tied into how Google intends to make money going forward.
—Esat Dedezade, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
First, the Imola, named for the famous Italian racetrack and created as a test bed for subsystems and engineering concepts to employ in future Pagani models.
—Mark Ewing, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
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Barry R. Posen, Foreign Affairs, 21 Apr. 2025
Then the test bed’s modulated X-ray source generates the X-ray photons these pulsars would emit, and the detector receives and time-stamps them.
—IEEE Spectrum, 4 June 2013
The keynote solidified Gemini’s presence beyond a mere test bed — t’s now embedded in products, packaged into subscriptions and tied into how Google intends to make money going forward.
—Esat Dedezade, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
First, the Imola, named for the famous Italian racetrack and created as a test bed for subsystems and engineering concepts to employ in future Pagani models.
—Mark Ewing, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
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“Test bed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/test%20bed. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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