1 a powder that is turned red by acid and blue by alkali (= substance with the opposite chemical reaction as acid)
The communal variables indicate that those persons who are the litmus test for the community have indeed been male.
The litmus test for any formal theory lies in its predictive ability.
That is why it functions as a litmus test for the overman; it tests his ability to live without the salvation of meaning.
Taking them together we get a good litmus test on recent thinking on the evolution of monetary relations from a political economy perspective.
The litmus test was the quantity of goods.
The ability of an institution to outlive its initial founder is the litmus test of institutionalisation.
More troubling is the implied litmus test - that countries that have gotten this right will be identifiable because they will not make ' policy errors'.
In the bilingual case, the litmus test for the presence of lexical sharing is the presence of cross-language semantic priming effects.
