experiment station
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of experiment station
An Americanism dating back to 1870–75
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Kariyat joined the experiment station, the research arm of the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, in 2022.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 3, 2024
He worked the test fields with Peter J. Nitzsche, the Rutgers Cooperative Extension agent for Morris County, and Jack Rabin, the associate director of the experiment station.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2016
In 1915 he got a job as research assistant at the experiment station and began working with soil microorganisms, the starting point of the antibiotics.
From Time Magazine Archive
Just beyond the agricultural experiment station, a new information center sits by a freshly dug pond with the regulation absurd Old Faithful-type fountain.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Agricultural Experimental Farm and School, abandoned as an experiment station, is used as a reform school.
From Prowling about Panama by George A. Miller
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