Usually means: Formal examination of evidence, judgment.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. trial: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. trial: Merriam-Webster
  3. trial: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. trial: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. trial: Collins English Dictionary
  6. trial: Vocabulary.com
  7. Trial, trial: Wordnik
  8. trial: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. trial: Wiktionary
  10. trial: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. trial: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. trial: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. trial, the trial: Dictionary.com
  14. trial: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. trial: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. The Trial (Angel), The Trial (My Name Is Earl), The Trial (band), The Trial (disambiguation), The Trial (film), The Trial (novel), The Trial (painting), The Trial (song), The Trial, Trial (album), Trial (band), Trial (disambiguation), Trial (film), Trial (grammatical number), Trial (law), Trial (ship), Trial: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Trial: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. trial: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. trial: Rhymezone
  20. trial: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. trial: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. trial: FreeDictionary.org
  23. trial: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. trial: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. trial: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. trial: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. trial: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. trial: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
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  7. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  8. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  9. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  10. Trial (law), trial: Legal dictionary
  11. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Trial, Trial (law), trial: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. trial: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Allergy Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  6. Trial (law), trial: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  3. TRIAL: Acronym Finder
  4. Trial: Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology
  5. trial: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Trial: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Trial: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. trial: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Trial (of a Rollout): Backgammon
  2. Trial: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See trialing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An occasion on which a person or thing is tested to find out how well they perform or how suitable they are.
noun:  The testing of a product or procedure.
noun:  (medicine, sciences, research) A research study to test the effectiveness and safety of a drug, medical procedure, etc.
noun:  An event in which athletes’ or animals’ abilities are tested as they compete for a place on a team, or to move on to the next level of a championship, for example.
noun:  (ceramics) A piece of ware used to test the heat of a kiln.
noun:  (UK) An internal examination set by Eton College.
noun:  (archaic) An occasion on which armies or individuals meet in combat.
noun:  A meeting or series of meetings in a court of law at which evidence is presented to a judge (and sometimes a jury) to allow them to decide on a legal matter (especially whether an accused person is guilty of a crime).
noun:  A difficult or annoying experience or person; (especially religion) such an experience seen as a test of faith and piety.
noun:  (archaic) The action of trying (to do) something, especially more than once. (This sense is still current in the expression trial and error.)
adjective:  Pertaining to a trial or test.
adjective:  Attempted on a provisional or experimental basis.
verb:  (transitive) To carry out a series of tests on (a new product, procedure etc.) before marketing or implementing it.
verb:  (transitive) To try out (a new player) in a sports team.
adjective:  Characterized by having three (usually equivalent) components.
adjective:  Triple.
adjective:  (grammar) Pertaining to a language form referring to three of something, like people. (See Ambai language for an example.)
noun:  (grammar) The trial number.

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