a test designed to predict how well an individual is prepared to profit from instruction in a particular field, especially reading, mathematics (arithmetic, algebra, geometry), and foreign languages.
n. in logic and philosophy, a universally accepted proposition that is not capable of proof or disproof. An axiom can be used as the starting point for a chain of deductive reasoning. Also called postulate. [from Greek axioma, “worthy thing”]
—axiomaticadj.