home/glossary/Litmus Test

Litmus Test

nounid 84441·updated May 18, 2026
verified

a coloring material, which is obtained from lichens, that turns red in acidic solutions and blue in alkaline solutions

polysemousMWE

Attested in

No recorded attestations. They are written when an MWE tagging stage is completed, stamped with the pack version and the document’s digest.

Classifications

Entity Type

Unknownauthoritativeglossary_import_default_pending_classifier

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
litmus
plural
Litmus Tests
possessive
Litmus Test's
pluralpossessive
Litmus Tests'

Framework definitions

Wordset Dictionary2 sensesview framework →
§1
a test that relies on a single indicator
§2
a coloring material, which is obtained from lichens, that turns red in acidic solutions and blue in alkaline solutions
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
a coloring material, which is obtained from lichens, that turns red in acidic solutions and blue in alkaline solutions
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

Outgoing relationships

No outgoing triples
This term is not the subject of any RDF-style relationship yet.

Incoming relationships

No incoming triples
No other term currently asserts a relationship to this one.