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A Trial
You can think of a trial as being like a single, discrete sortie. In other words, each trial is a single attempt or one solitary episode in which you give your dog a command and your dog responds, be it obediently or otherwise.
For example, if you command your dog to sit twenty times and give him a chance to react to each of those, then, that would be described as twenty trials.