A trial is the presentation of information in a formal setting, usually a court.
Trial may also refer to:
An experiment, research study, or test
- Bernoulli trial, any experiment with two possible random outcomes
- Clinical trial, a medical research study
- Evaluation, e.g., of software products in a trial version
- Sea trial, the final stage of constructing and testing a ship
People with the name
- MC Trials, an Australian hip hop MC with Funkoars
- Antoine Trial (1737–1795), a French tenor whose name is used to describe a certain type of tenor voice ('trial')
Arts, entertainment, and media
Games
- Mock Trial (card game), a 1910 card game invented by Lizzie Magie
- Trials (series), a platform racing video game series
- Trials (video game), a 2000 video game and the first in the above series
Music
- Trial (album), a 2012 album by the Pillows
- Trial (band), an American political straight-edge hardcore band from Seattle, Washington
- Trials (band), an American heavy metal band from Chicago, Illinois
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
- Trial (film), a 1955 American film
- "Trial" (Batman: The Animated Series), a 1995 episode of Batman: The Animated Series
- Trial, a 1955 novel by Don Mankiewicz
- Trials (journal), an online open-access medical journal
Law
- Bench trial, a trial in which a judge or panel of judges makes all decisions
- Brought to trial, to calendar a legal case for a hearing
- Civil trial, a trial governed by civil procedure, to settle lawsuits or civil claims (non-criminal disputes)
- Criminal trial, a trial governed by criminal procedure, aimed to achieve either the conviction or acquittal of the defendant
- Jury trial, or trial by jury, a lawful proceeding in which a jury makes a decision or findings of fact
- Mock trial, an act or imitation trial similar to a moot court, that simulates a lower-court trial (while a moot court simulates an appellate court hearing)
- Trial by combat (also called wager of battle, trial by battle, or judicial duel), a method of Germanic law to settle accusations in the absence of witnesses or a confession in which two parties in dispute fought in single combat
- Trial by ordeal, a trial by which the guilt or innocence of the accused is determined by subjecting them to a painful task
Sports
- Classic trials, motoring competitions of skill and/or reliability
- Motorcycle trials, an offroad competitive test using specialist motorcycles
- Mountain bike trials, an obstacle bicycle competition, derived from the motorcycle sport
- Off-roading, driving a specialized vehicle on unpaved roads, at low speed, and with emphasis on skill
- Time trials
- Unicycle trials, an obstacle unicycle competition, derived from the bicycle and motorcycle sports
Linguistics
- Trial, a grammatical number referring to 'three items'
Other uses
- Trial (ship), a ship seized by convicts and wrecked in 1816
See also
- Bisha'a, trial by ordeal among the Bedouin
- Mistrial (disambiguation)
- The Trial (disambiguation)
- Trial by fire (disambiguation)
- Trial Run (disambiguation)
- Try (disambiguation)
- Tryall (also known as Tryal), a ship which was wrecked in 1622