field trial

noun

Updated on: 31 Mar 2018

Definition of field trial

1 : a trial of sporting dogs in actual performance

2 : a trial of a new product in actual situations for which it is intended

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But Verizon was already planning its 5G home Internet deployments in 2015, and the company started field trials in early 2016.

— jon brodkin, Ars Technica, "Here’s Ajit Pai’s “proof” that killing net neutrality created more broadband," 5 Feb. 2018
The company started conducting its 5G field trials in mid-2016.

— samantha ehlinger, San Antonio Express-News, "AT&T: Dallas and Waco will get mobile 5G by end of 2018," 21 Feb. 2018
The event's move to Southern California that year marks the first time since 2008 that the track and field trials will be held outside Eugene.

— elliot njus, OregonLive.com, "TriMet reverses, won't pull paper passes from stores this month," 8 Feb. 2018
If the field trials work well, the new bait might get federal approval in 2020, opening the way for states to approve it.

— janet mcconnaughey, The Seattle Times, "Feral hog poison field tests in Texas, Alabama in 2018," 26 Dec. 2017
Their paper draws on a half-century of studies by scores of economists and psychologists as well as fresh field trials using hundreds of people from three universities.

— The Economist, "Feelings under wrapsNew research reveals simmering misunderstanding under the tree," 21 Dec. 2017
Okanagan’s Carter and his wife Louisa founded the company in 1996, and field trials with the Arctic Apple started in 2003.

— lydia mulvany, Bloomberg.com, "GMO Apples Head to the Midwest," 2 Nov. 2017
The company has scaled up the panels to 1.65 square meters each, and is now conducting a larger field trial in Davis, California.

— robert f. service, Science | AAAS, "New water-cooling solar panels could lower the cost of air conditioning by 20%," 4 Sep. 2017
In 2014, O’Neill’s team conducted a major field trial in Townsville, an Australian city of 180,000 people.

— mark johnson, jsonline.com, "Outwitting nature’s greatest killer," 5 Oct. 2017

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