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Dictionary: reality check

n.
An assessment to determine if one's circumstances or expectations conform to reality.


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Idioms: reality check
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An assessment to determine if one's circumstances or expectations conform to reality, as in Time for a reality check--wasn't this supposed to be a money-making enterprise? [Slang; second half of 1900s]


Hacker Slang: reality check
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1. The simplest kind of test of software or hardware; doing the equivalent of asking it what 2 + 2 is and seeing if you get 4. The software equivalent of a smoke test.

2. The act of letting a real user try out prototype software. Compare sanity check.


Wikipedia: Reality Check
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Reality Check may refer to:

  • Reality Check (TV series), a 1995 syndicated television series
  • Reality Check (comics), an English language manga series
  • Reality Check (organization), an anti-tobacco movement led by teenagers and operated by the New York State Department of Health
  • "Reality Check", a recurring segment on the sketch comedy show MADtv
  • Reality check, a technique used in lucid dreaming to determine whether one is actually dreaming
  • Reality Check, the signature move of wrestler The Miz

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