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

   • 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