experimental group
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of experimental group
First recorded in 1845–50
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Animals in the experimental group had about 20 times as much copper in their feces as animals in the control group, and after they stopped receiving copper their levels of the metal returned to baseline.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 17, 2024
Her big break came in 1964, when the director Mr. Brook brought her into an experimental group he was assembling for the recently formed Royal Shakespeare Company.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2023
The experimental group of 87 mentors instead completed a different 2-hour module focused on enhancing the mentor’s cultural diversity awareness.
From Science Magazine ● May 23, 2023
Just two months after we made our discovery public, an experimental group in Shanghai reported implementing our gedankenexperiment with superconducting qubits—computer bits made of quantum particles.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 24, 2023
He required half his experimental group to chew thoroughly, and the other half to gulp things down as usual,.
From How and When to Be Your Own Doctor by Solomon, Steve
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