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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. an occasion on which one is reminded of the nature of things in the real world;
- Example: "this program is intended as a reality check for CEOs"
- Example: "after all those elaborate productions, I felt in need of a reality check"


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

reality check n 1: an occasion on which one is reminded of the nature of things in the real world; "this program is intended as a reality check for CEOs"; "after all those elaborate productions, I felt in need of a reality check"
The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):

reality check n. 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.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

reality check The simplest kind of functional test of software or hardware; doing the equivalent of asking it what 2 + 2 is and seeing if it says four. The software equivalent of a smoke test. A reality check may include letting a real user try out prototype software. A sanity check is even more basic, the equivalent of checking that the above addition was implemented with an addition operator rather than subtraction. (2007-03-15)