proving ground

English

Noun

proving ground (plural proving grounds)

1. (military) A terrain or installation for testing weapons, military equipment, or tactics.

   Hypernym: ground

2. (figurative) A venue or project in which new technologies, methods, or techniques are tested.

   Synonym: testing ground

   • 1956 June, “Electrification in Clydeside and East Anglia”, in Railway Magazine, page 414:

     To test the new equipment and vehicles that will work to the high voltage a.c. system, a proving ground was sought at a convenient point, and the lines from Colchester to Clacton and Walton have been selected.

   • 2021 June 30, David Clough, “Brush: a UK rail icon”, in RAIL, number 934, page 55:

     Several design issues emerged quite quickly with the Mirrlees engine, and so these locomotives can be seen as its rail-traction proving ground.

Translations

weapon/tactics-testing place

Chinese: Mandarin: 演习场 (zh) Czech: vojenský újezd m Finnish: koekenttä Polish: poligon (pl) m Russian: испыта́тельный полиго́н m (ispytátelʹnyj poligón) Swedish: skjutfält (sv) n Ukrainian: поліго́н (uk) m (polihón)

See also

• firing range

References

• proving ground on Wikipedia.Wikipedia