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The phrase "a dummy test" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a test that is not intended to be taken seriously or is used for practice or demonstration purposes.
Example: "Before the actual exam, the teacher gave us a dummy test to help us prepare."
Alternatives: "practice test" or "mock test".
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This time their target is not an incoming warhead or a dummy test target, but a doomed experimental satellite the size of a school bus and weighing 5,000 pounds.
This time, the target is not an incoming warhead or a dummy test target, but a doomed experimental satellite the size of a school bus and weighing 5,000 pounds.
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No dummy test, this was the real deal.
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TEST: a dummy variable that takes the value one when students are assessed by teachers through tests, quizzes or exams more often than once a month.
Rear tests use a dummy that measures neck pressure; the test simulates a collision where a stationary vehicle is struck from behind at 20 mph.
Last month a suspect package intercepted at Windhoek airport in Namibia was a dummy bomb used to test security, according to the German interior minister, Thomas de Maizière.
In the test, a dummy's head went through the air bag and struck the steering wheel, which would lead to head, chest, neck and leg injuries for a real driver, said Russ Rader, a spokesman for the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
Developing a lifelike dummy whose test results can be replicated can take decades and cost several million dollars, researchers said.
"When you run a test with a dummy, all you can say is that the dummy gets hit in the head, here are the forces, here is the acceleration and here is the motion-time history of the head," says Guy Nusholtz, a manager at the Experimental and Computational Mechanics department at car maker Chrysler who is interested in brain injuries.
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