experiment
a test, trial, or tentative procedure; an act or operation for the purpose of discovering something unknown or of testing a principle, supposition, etc.: a chemical experiment; a teaching experiment; an experiment in living.
the conducting of such operations; experimentation: a product that is the result of long experiment.
Obsolete. experience.
to try or test, especially in order to discover or prove something: to experiment with a new procedure.
Origin of experiment
1synonym study For experiment
Other words for experiment
Other words from experiment
- ex·per·i·ment·er, ex·per·i·men·tor, ex·per·i·men·ta·tor, noun
- pre·ex·per·i·ment, noun
- pro·ex·per·i·ment, adjective
- re·ex·per·i·ment, verb (used without object), noun
- un·ex·per·i·ment·ed, adjective
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How to use experiment in a sentence
IBM hopes that a platform like RoboRXN could dramatically speed up that process by predicting the recipes for compounds and automating experiments.
IBM has built a new drug-making lab entirely in the cloud | Karen Hao | August 28, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewThe hope there is for improved sensitivity in searches for dark matter or experiments that might reveal some long-sought flaws in our standard model of particle physics.
Cosmic rays could pose a problem for future quantum computers | Neel Patel | August 26, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewThe experiment represents early progress toward the possible development of an ultra-secure communications network beamed from space.
U.S. vies for leadership in quantum and A.I. with $1 billion bet | rhhackettfortune | August 26, 2020 | FortuneThe new experiment represents, however, the first time scientists have applied machine learning to “validation,” a further step toward confirming results that involves additional statistical calculation.
50 new planets, including one as big as Neptune, are identified using A.I. | rhhackettfortune | August 26, 2020 | FortuneAt first, the sites amounted to experiments on the outer edges of the crypto universe, but in 2020 they have started to attract real money.
To put it rather uncharitably, the USPHS practiced a major dental experiment on a city full of unconsenting subjects.
If the noble experiment of American democracy is to mean anything, it is fidelity to the principle of freedom.
The Sony Hack and America’s Craven Capitulation To Terror | David Keyes | December 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA classroom experiment seeks to demonstrate what it looks like.
This video, courtesy of BuzzFeed, tries a bit of an experiment to get some answers.
In the fall of 1992, Booker became a vegetarian “as an experiment,” he said, “and I was surprised by how much my body took to it.”
With Bacon, experientia does not always mean observation; and may mean either experience or experiment.
The Mediaeval Mind (Volume II of II) | Henry Osborn TaylorI made the experiment two years ago, and all my experience since has corroborated the conclusion then arrived at.
Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)But this is quite enough to justify the inconsiderable expense which the experiment I urge would involve.
Glances at Europe | Horace GreeleyHe commenced to experiment in electro-pneumatics in the year 1860, and early in 1861 communicated his discoveries to Mr. Barker.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building | George Laing MillerReaders will doubtless be familiar with the well-known experiment illustrating this point.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building | George Laing Miller
British Dictionary definitions for experiment
a test or investigation, esp one planned to provide evidence for or against a hypothesis: a scientific experiment
the act of conducting such an investigation or test; experimentation; research
an attempt at something new or different; an effort to be original: a poetic experiment
an obsolete word for experience
(intr) to make an experiment or experiments
Origin of experiment
1Derived forms of experiment
- experimenter, noun
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Scientific definitions for experiment
[ ĭk-spĕr′ə-mənt ]
A test or procedure carried out under controlled conditions to determine the validity of a hypothesis or make a discovery. See Note at hypothesis.
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