experiment station

American  

noun

1. an establishment in which experiments in a particular line of research or activity, as agriculture or mining, are systematically carried on.

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Etymology

Origin of experiment station

An Americanism dating back to 1870–75

Example Sentences

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

Set out in row's at the University's plant experiment station in Berkeley are a number of shallow tanks made of wood, concrete, metal.

From Time Magazine Archive

Government experiment station skinned ten inches of soil off half an acre of virgin Ohio grassland, leaving nothing but the yellow subsoil.

From Time Magazine Archive

I had a stack of experiment station bulletins in my grip, and during the four hours I spent on the train my eyes never left their pages.

From The Idyl of Twin Fires by Eaton, Walter Prichard