The phrase "a defining test of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a significant or crucial evaluation that determines the quality or nature of something.
Example: "The final exam is a defining test of a student's understanding of the course material."
Alternatives: "a crucial assessment of" or "a key measure of".
When Danielson followed with his great run in 1966, it was still considered a defining test of human capacity for speed and endurance.
When it does, exactly how the sport and those around it react will be a defining test of fine talk, T-shirt slogans and all the rest.
"It is a defining test of our generation of leaders that we care for and resolve the fears and foreboding of the next generation when it comes to that most basic of questions - 'Where and what will I call home?' " Harriet Harman, the acting Labour leader, said: "The Government is not doing enough to get new homes built, in fact currently fewer than half the number of homes needed.
Perhaps most disappointing are the gadgets that flunk the defining test of tooldom: making a task simpler.
For instance, during the defining test of recruit training called The Crucible, Marine recruits embark on a 54-hour mission on which they receive only about 4 hours of sleep.
It is defined as the ratio between the probability of a defined test result in the presence of the disease (or two CMR biomarkers in the present study) and the probability of a defined test result in the absence of the disease.
The AUC is the sum of scores for each individual mouse during a defined test period and describes the development of disease in terms of onset, duration and severity.
Two objectives of the experimental program have been defined: testing of the experimental setup and a first validation of FE models.
The contrasts define a test of interaction of between- and within-subject trends.
A certain known volume of a pre defined test solution is then put into the sweat gland and introduced onto the top surface of the fabric.
All the defined test signals of 10,000 symbols are evaluated under AWGN channel.
