experimental group

American  

noun

1. (in an experiment or clinical trial) a group of subjects who are exposed to the variable under study.

   a lower infection rate in the experimental group that received the vaccine.

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Etymology

Origin of experimental group

First recorded in 1845–50

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• control group vs. experimental group

Example Sentences

They are based on a collaboration going back some 20 years between the experimental group of Akira Furusawa in Japan and the theoretical team of Peter van Loock in Germany.

From Science Daily • Feb. 2, 2024

And in mentor self-assessment, the experimental group members were twice as likely to report that their racial identity matters to their mentoring relationships, compared with the control group.

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

A “high-dose” experimental group was asked to eat twice as many prunes.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 25, 2023

He was one of the most brilliant geneticists of Earth, and came to Mars with an experimental group that was to try to develop a human type that could live more comfortably under Martian conditions.

From Rebels of the Red Planet by Fontenay, Charles Louis