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Rorschach , town (1990 pop. 9,535), St. Gall canton, NE Switzerland, on Lake Constance. A prosperous commercial town in the Middle Ages, Rorschach is a resort and the largest Swiss port on the lake.

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Rorschach test (ror-shahk) n. a test to measure aspects of personality, consisting of ten inkblots in colour and black and white. The responses to the different inkblots are used to derive hypotheses about the subject. [ H. Rorschach (1884–1922), Swiss psychiatrist]

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Rorschach test (ink-blot test) In psychology, test used to analyse a person's motives and attitudes. The individual is presented with 10 standardized ink blots and interpretation is based on the description of them.

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