low-test

[ loh-test ]

adjective

1. (of gasoline) boiling at a comparatively high temperature.

low-test

1. Relating to gasoline with low volatility and a high boiling point.

Word History and Origins

Origin of low-test¹

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

We can finally stop worrying about the country’s ridiculously low-test scores.

From Time

The committee admitted the justice of the Army's claim that the higher enlistment score required by the Navy and Air Force resulted in the Army's getting more than its share of men in the low-test categories IV and V. And while Kenworthy believed that immediate integration was less likely to cause serious trouble than the Army's announced plan of mixing the races in progressively smaller units, he too accepted the argument that it would be dangerous to reassign the Army's group of professional black privates to white units.

From Project Gutenberg

The lamps had long been out, but the odour of low-test kerosene still hung about the closed living-room where the same four people sat in council.

From Project Gutenberg