trial

1. Law

a. the judicial examination of the issues in a civil or criminal cause by a competent tribunal and the determination of these issues in accordance with the law of the land

b. the determination of an accused person's guilt or innocence after hearing evidence for the prosecution and for the accused and the judicial examination of the issues involved

c. (as modifier): trial proceedings

2. a motorcycling competition in which the skills of the riders are tested over rough ground

3. Ceramics a piece of sample material used for testing the heat of a kiln and its effects

Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

What does it mean when you dream about a trial?

Dreaming of being on trial may indicate that the dreamer needs to be more accepting of himself or herself and less judgmental of others.

trial

[trīl]

(statistics)

One of a series of duplicate experiments.

Trial

Bardell vs. Pickwick

trial for breach of promise results in imprisonment of both parties for not paying damages and costs. [Br. Lit.: Dickens Pickwick Papers]

Trial by Jury

trial of a breach-of-promise suit is dismissed when the judge decides to many the plaintiff. [Br. Opera: Gilbert and Sullivan Trial by Jury]

Trial, The

Joseph K. is tried by a strange court for an unspecified crime. [Ger. Lit.: Kafka The Trial]

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Trial

a concept used in probability theory. Trials may have one (and only one) of the outcomes A¹, A²,. . ., A_n Each outcome of a trial is considered an “event” that has a certain probability P(A_k). Here always holds.

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References in periodicals archive

The aforementioned trial-and-error methods obviate the origin-destination (OD) demand function, yet they still rely on the data of link travel time functions and drivers' value-of-time, which are not all readily available in practice.

Considering the wide practicality of cordon-based pricing in reality, an extension of the previous trial-and-error methods for cordon-based pricing is of considerable significance.

Assuming the users' route choice behavior follows the General SUE principle; this article proposed a trial-and-error method based on the variational inequality (VI) model built by Liu et al.

A Trial-and-Error Method with Autonomous Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Traffic Counts for Cordon-Based Congestion Pricing

In short, the stimulus modification procedures (stimulus shaping, stimulus fading) appear to be more efficient in terms of errors and direct instruction time than trial-and-error, error correction, antecedent prompt and test, most-to-least prompting, and progressive time delay.

The response prompting strategies (most-to-least prompting and progressive time delay, system of least prompts, antecedent prompt and test) that have been compared to trial-and-error and error-correction procedures are more effective and were more efficient in terms of errors to criterion.

Review of comparative studies in the interaction of students with moderate and severe handicaps

Also, the easy control of compaction pressure reduces the trial-and-error required to alter mold hardness.

Choosing a Mold Compaction Method for Green Sand

This simulates the trial-and-error technique that has been used for years on the foundry floor, but does not involve physical changes to molding equipment.

Computer solidification modeling speeds design-to-production cycle