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smoke tests

smoke tests is the plural of smoke test.

smoke tests is the third-person singular simple present indicative of smoke test.

Meaning of smoke test

Noun

smoke test (plural smoke tests)

  1. A test for leaks involving blowing smoke into a tube or pipe.
  2. A preliminary test on a newly-constructed piece of electronic equipment, consisting simply of the application of electrical power, to make sure that no egregious wiring errors exist which would cause the circuitry to emit smoke, catch fire, explode, etc.
  3. (broadly) Such an initial test on some other (not necessarily electronic) system, such as a computer program, again, not to perform any exhaustive tests of functionality, but simply to make sure that the system will not catastrophically fail on activation.
  4. A test to make sure that theatrical smoke will not set off the smoke alarms in a building.

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Questions about smoke tests

What is smoke tests the plural of?
Smoke tests is the plural of smoke test.

Words near smoke tests in the dictionary

  1. smoke stand
  2. smoke stands
  3. smoke test
  4. smoke tested
  5. smoke testing
  6. smoke tests
  7. smoke the whole pack
  8. smoke tower
  9. smoke towers
  10. smoke tree
  11. smoke trees

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Adapted from Wiktionary: smoke tests (page history and authors); smoke test (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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