experimentalist
Americannoun
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a person who enjoys experimenting or trying new things, especially in the arts.
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a scientist whose research relies on experiments or who is skilled in designing and conducting them.
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a person who subscribes to philosophical empiricism.
adjective
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fond of experimenting or trying new things, especially in the arts.
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of or relating to a scientific or philosophical emphasis on experiment or experience rather than theory.
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Prominent among these were ballets by Ms. Tharp, the one-time experimentalist modern-dance maker whose creations for ABT made up the opening bill.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2025
This playlist is a chronological tour through Charli XCX’s many eras, from her time as a precocious club kid to her more recent reign as a forward-thinking pop experimentalist.
From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2024
A muon collider’s ability to more clearly probe Higgs physics sets it apart, says Donatella Lucchesi, an experimentalist at the University of Padua and Italy’s National Institute of Nuclear Physics.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 27, 2024
“This study has interesting ideas,” McGiffen said, but “some experimentalist needs to go out there and test all this.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2024
Their approaches to physics were divergent: Lawrence was an experimentalist nonpareil, Teller a profoundly intuitive theorist.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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