trial

In law, the determination of an accused person's innocence or guilt by means of the judicial examination of the issues of the case in accordance with the law of the land. The two parties in a trial, the defendant and plaintiff, or their counsels, put forward their cases and question the witnesses; on the basis of this evidence the jury or other tribunal body decides on the innocence or guilt of the defendant.

trial

French term for a special type of operatic tenor voice of a high, thin, rather nasal quality suited to comic parts. The name is derived from the singer Antoine Trial.

trial

In a probability experiment, a term denoting each experiment or observation.