rehearsal

Plural: rehearsals

Noun

• a practice session in preparation for a public performance (as of a play or speech or concert)
  • "he missed too many rehearsals"
  • "a rehearsal will be held the day before the wedding"
• (psychology) a form of practice; repetition of information (silently or aloud) in order to keep it in short-term memory
• The practising of something which is to be performed before an audience, usually to test or improve the interaction between several participating people, or to allow technical adjustments with respect to staging to be done.
• A preparatory activity analogous to a rehearsal.
• The act of rehearsing or contriving something; the fact of something's being rehearsed.

Examples

• The forest fires are just a rehearsal for the devastation that will be caused if climate change continues to worsen.
• The prosecution argued that the defendant's exact repetition of his account of the events several times demonstrated the rehearsal of his story.

Synonyms

dry run