field trial

Questions about field trial

What does field trial mean?

field trial means "a test of the performance of some new product under the conditions in which it will be used". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for field trial?

Close synonyms include field test. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is field trial a common word?

field trial is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.