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field trial
n.
1. A test for young, untried hunting dogs to determine their competence in pointing and retrieving. Often used in the plural.
2. A trial of a new product in actual situations of use.
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Noun1.field trial - a test of the performance of some new product under the conditions in which it will be used
test, trial run, tryout, trial - trying something to find out about it; "a sample for ten days free trial"; "a trial of progesterone failed to relieve the pain"
2.field trial - a contest between gun dogs to determine their proficiency in pointing and retrieving
contest, competition - an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants
3.field trial - a test of young hunting dogs to determine their skill in pointing and retrieving
trial, run, test - the act of testing something; "in the experimental trials the amount of carbon was measured separately"; "he called each flip of the coin a new trial"

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has completed comprehensive field trials of a new heat treatment system.
Tokyo, Japan, Mar 7, 2006 - (JCN) - KDDI has successfully completed field trials of Japan's first Mobile WiMAX system, in central Osaka.
Randomized field trials are not the best or only way to address k all important research questions, but they are often described as the "gold standard.
 
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