experimentation
[ik-sper-uh-men-tey-shuh n, -muh n-]
- the act, process, practice, or an instance of making experiments.
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Origin of experimentation
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Examples from the Web for experimentation
Contemporary Examples
Experimentation eventually led to the right taste and amount of frozen firmness.
But Millennials plainly have a spirit of innovation and experimentation that is stymied by centralized government.
Brown told the audience that the key to good design was experimentation and learning from mistakes.
Bill Clinton Opens His CGI Summit by Stressing the Urgency of His MissionDavid Freedlander
September 23, 2012
Each project is somehow an experimentation of a specific context or a character.
Hedi Slimane Interview: ‘California Song’ at MOCA Los Angeles (PHOTOS)Isabel Wilkinson
January 20, 2012
And, sure enough, the experimentation of my youth settled down into my own sense of modesty in my 40s.
Historical Examples
Step by step he became strongly attracted to experimentation.
Priestley in AmericaEdgar F. Smith
Is validation of this type of experimentation a subject of language?
The Civilization of IlliteracyMihai Nadin
This method is the method of art and science—the method of experimentation and inquiry.
Here and Now Story BookLucy Sprague Mitchell
There were no laboratories, for there was no experimentation.
An Introduction to the History of Western EuropeJames Harvey Robinson
Does experimentation, strictly so called, teach us anything on this point?
Essay on the Creative ImaginationTh. Ribot
experimentation
- the act, process, or practice of experimenting
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Word Origin and History for experimentation
n.
1670s; see experiment + -ation.
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