The second meaning makes no sense. You are referring to a machine being tested or under test (both meaning the same).Thank you BobK, How about their meanings, they have the same meaning or not?
I saw both of them in ISO documents, I can not give a proper meaning to each of them in Thai. It is very confusing because my English is not good enough.
Is it possible if I give a meaning to Test machine = machine of a test which means the machine is or is to be used for testing purposes or for testing something? As a tool for testing something. :up: In that context, that's certainly what it means.
While Testing machine is a machine to be tested for some results by using a test machine to find the results of the testing machine?
Please help giving the proper meaning of each phrase according to the point of view of the English-native speaker.
Thank you in advance.
A test machine could be a machine that is being tested. Compare to a test flight, a test drive, or a test case.
The second meaning makes no sense. You are referring to a machine being tested or under test (both meaning the same).
But be very careful with ISO documents. They usually develop and use very specific meaning which must be strictly applied. These definitions are usually specified in some 'master document', and must be applied throughout the relevant series (for example, definitions in X.400 apply throughout the X4**...). (I'm way out of touch with ISO documents, and in order to interpret them you need to talk to a specialist in the technical area; what those documents do with English is ... unspeakable ;-))
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