assay
IPA: ˈæsi
noun
- Trial, attempt.
- Examination and determination; test.
- The qualitative or quantitative chemical analysis of something.
- Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship; state of being tried.
- Tested purity or value.
- The act or process of ascertaining the proportion of a particular metal in an ore or alloy; especially, the determination of the proportion of gold or silver in bullion or coin.
- The alloy or metal to be assayed.
verb
- (transitive) To attempt (something).
- (archaic, intransitive) To try, attempt (to do something).
- (transitive) To analyze or estimate the composition or value of (a metal, ore etc.).
- (obsolete, transitive) To test the abilities of (someone) in combat; to fight.
- To affect.
- To try tasting, as food or drink.
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Examples of "assay" in Sentences
- The Irish assay system is based on that of the UK.
- I added the removed text to the Enzyme assay page.
- The products were analyzed as the relaxation assay.
- The assay is based on the collisional quenching of them.
- The assay was performed three times, each in triplicate.
- The use of a touchstone to assay gold and silver is discussed.
- The assay of glucagon and epinephrine with use of liver homogenates.
- This assay measures the function of the extrinsic pathway of coagulation.
- The classic assay for protein concentration in food is the Kjeldahl method.
- The radiolabeled compounds are used in the radioimmunological assay of digoxin.
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