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| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | A stationary platform or table, together with any testing apparatus attached thereto, for testing or proving engines, instruments, etc. See proving stand. Compare launch stand. (references) |
Meteorology & Standards | A framework foundation on which machines are fixed for carrying out tests. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: TEST STAND |
| Specialty definitions using "TEST STAND": BALANCE TRUER, BELLOWS TESTER ♦ ENGINE TESTER ♦ GAS-REGULATOR REPAIRER, governor assembler ♦ holddown test ♦ launch stand ♦ MACHINE OPERATOR, CENTRIFUGAL-CONTROL SWITCHES, MOTORCYCLE TESTER ♦ proving stand ♦ rocket thrust, ROCKET-TEST-FIRE WORKER ♦ stand talker, SUPERVISOR, INSTRUMENT REPAIR ♦ tester, rocket engine, TESTER, ROCKET MOTOR, TESTER, WASTE DISPOSAL LEAKAGE. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Building a Test Stand. Credit: NASA. |  | Saturn V S-II hoisted onto Test Stand. Credit: NASA. |
 | Space Shuttle Enterprise Lifted into Dynamic Test Stand. Credit: NASA. |  | Saturn V, S-II Stage is Lifted into Test Stand. Credit: NASA. |
 | A-1 Test Stand Night Firing. Credit: NASA. |  | Saturn V First Stage Lifted into Test Stand. Credit: NASA. |
 | Rocket Test Stand and Engine. Credit: NASA. |  | Nuclear Rocket Engine Being Transported to Test Stand. Credit: NASA. |
 | TIROS I satellite on test stand during preliminary test stage. In: "Weather Analysis from Satellite Observations, " U.S. Navy Research Facility, December 1960. Figure 1.4. Credit: NOAA in Space. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
engine test stand | 13 |
test stand | 4 |
hydraulic test stand | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "TEST STAND"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | prøvestand (proving stand, test bed, test bench, test installation, test plant, test rig), prøveplan (test bed, test bench, test installation, test plant, test rig), prøvebænk (test bed, test bench, test installation, test plant, test rig). (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | proefstelling (test bed, test bench, test installation, test plant, test rig), proefstand (proving stand, test bed, test bench, test installation, test plant, test rig), proefbank (test bed, test bench, test installation, test plant, test rig). (various references) | ||||||||||
Finnish | koepenkki (test bed, test bench, test installation, test plant, test rig). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | banc d'essai (test bed, test bench, test installation, test plant, test rig), banc d'épreuve (test bed, test bench, test installation, test plant, test rig). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Prüfstand (test-bench). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | κλίνη δοκιμής (test bed, test bench, test installation, test plant, test rig), τράπεζα δοκιμής (test bed, test bench, test installation, test plant, test rig), δοκιμαστήριο (test bed, test bench, test installation, test plant, test rig). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | próbapad (test-bench), kísérleti állvány (test-bench). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | banco di prova (sounding board). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | esttay andstay estructura para pruebas (test bed, test bench, test installation, test plant, test rig), banco de pruebas (testing bench). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-n-s-s-t-t-t" | |
-2 letters: attends, attests. | |
-3 letters: assent, attend, attent, attest, sanest, sedans, stades, stands, staned, stanes, stated, states, steads, tasset, tasted, tastes, tatted, tsades. | |
-4 letters: anted, antes, assed, asset, dates, deans, dents, easts, etnas, nates, neats, nests, netts, sades, sands, saned, sanes, sated, sates, seats, sedan, sends, sensa, setts, sneds, stade, stand, stane, state, stats, stead. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-n-s-s-t-t-t" | |
+3 letters: detestations, standpatters. | |
+4 letters: attitudinises, dilettantisms, substantiated. | |
+5 letters: postdebutantes. | |
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