test bed
noun
: a vehicle (such as an airplane) used for testing new equipment (such as engines or weapons systems)
broadly
: any device, facility, or means for testing something in development
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In contrast to Beijing’s more conservative stance in mainland China, Hong Kong, as a special administrative region of the country, has become the nation’s test bed for remaining globally competitive in finance.
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Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 27 July 2025
Our current graphics-card test bed uses a Gigabyte X870E Aorus Master motherboard and an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X processor, with a 360mm Cooler Master liquid cooler to keep the temperature in check.
—PC Magazine, 17 July 2025
The company has also positioned its W-series of spacecraft, which reenter at a maximum speed of Mach 25, as an ideal test bed for thermal protection materials, navigation, communications, and other sensors that could be flown operationally on hypersonic missiles.
—ArsTechnica, 10 July 2025
This implies that the underlying biology of the cancers may be similar in the two species, and, if so, researchers ought to be able to work in the other direction, too—using dogs as a test bed to develop new therapies for people.
—Knowable Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 July 2025
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Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 27 July 2025
Our current graphics-card test bed uses a Gigabyte X870E Aorus Master motherboard and an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X processor, with a 360mm Cooler Master liquid cooler to keep the temperature in check.
—PC Magazine, 17 July 2025
The company has also positioned its W-series of spacecraft, which reenter at a maximum speed of Mach 25, as an ideal test bed for thermal protection materials, navigation, communications, and other sensors that could be flown operationally on hypersonic missiles.
—ArsTechnica, 10 July 2025
This implies that the underlying biology of the cancers may be similar in the two species, and, if so, researchers ought to be able to work in the other direction, too—using dogs as a test bed to develop new therapies for people.
—Knowable Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 July 2025
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“Test bed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/test%20bed. Accessed 23 Aug. 2025.
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