field test

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Simpli-Fi Automation of St. Paul, Minn.—which has an exclusive license to use NASA’s scent technology for medical applications—is preparing to field-test a commercial device that analyzes breath on a larger scale.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

Vassiliou says that he has received funding to field-test the system and partner with scientists on the ground to refine the invention.

From Scientific American • Jan. 3, 2022

“It usually takes years to field-test a vaccine.”

From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2021

Please field-test some good noise-canceling headphones and/or earplugs so that the not-on-duty parent can actually sleep, and know that it’s going to be bad and then it will get better.

From Slate • Mar. 15, 2019

For example, one might see the following: I resently had occasion to field-test the Snafu Systems 2300E adaptive gonkulator.

From The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 by Raymond, Eric S.