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noun as in investigation, test

Strongest matches

analysis , attempt , enterprise , examination , exercise , experimentation , measure , observation , operation , practice , probe , procedure , research , search , study , trial , undertaking , venture

Strong matches

agreement , assay , check , dissection , essay , fling , proof , quiz , rehearsal , scrutiny , speculation , try , try-on , tryout , verification

Weak matches

dry run , R and D , research and development , trial and error , trial run

verb as in investigate, test

analyze , examine , explore

assay , diagnose , probe , prove , research , sample , scrutinize , search , speculate , study , try , venture , verify , weigh

fool with , futz around , mess around , play around with , practice with , put to the test , shake down , try on , try on for size , try out

Example Sentences

IBM hopes that a platform like RoboRXN could dramatically speed up that process by predicting the recipes for compounds and automating experiments.

The hope there is for improved sensitivity in searches for dark matter or experiments that might reveal some long-sought flaws in our standard model of particle physics.

The experiment represents early progress toward the possible development of an ultra-secure communications network beamed from space.

The new experiment represents, however, the first time scientists have applied machine learning to “validation,” a further step toward confirming results that involves additional statistical calculation.

At first, the sites amounted to experiments on the outer edges of the crypto universe, but in 2020 they have started to attract real money.

To put it rather uncharitably, the USPHS practiced a major dental experiment on a city full of unconsenting subjects.

If the noble experiment of American democracy is to mean anything, it is fidelity to the principle of freedom.

A classroom experiment seeks to demonstrate what it looks like.

This video, courtesy of BuzzFeed, tries a bit of an experiment to get some answers.

In the fall of 1992, Booker became a vegetarian “as an experiment,” he said, “and I was surprised by how much my body took to it.”

With Bacon, experientia does not always mean observation; and may mean either experience or experiment.

I made the experiment two years ago, and all my experience since has corroborated the conclusion then arrived at.

But this is quite enough to justify the inconsiderable expense which the experiment I urge would involve.

He commenced to experiment in electro-pneumatics in the year 1860, and early in 1861 communicated his discoveries to Mr. Barker.

Readers will doubtless be familiar with the well-known experiment illustrating this point.

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Words related to experiment are not direct synonyms, but are associated with the word experiment . Browse related words to learn more about word associations.

noun as in critical test

• conclusive test
• crucial test
• decisive test
• definitive test
• genuineness
• proving ground
• substantiation
• test of value
• verification

verb as in try, make effort

• do level best
• exert oneself
• give a fling
• give a whirl
• give best shot
• give it a go
• give it a try
• give old college try
• go the limit
• have a crack
• have a go at
• make a run at
• shoot the works
• take a stab at
• take best shot
• try one's hand at

noun as in try, effort

• all one's got
• one's all
• one's darnedest
• one's level best
• undertaking

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Experimental synonyms

What is another word for experimental .

• trial start, test
• pilot start, trial
• empirical preliminary, test
• test trial, start
• tentative test, speculative
• experiential exploratory
• observational preliminary
• preliminary test, exploratory
• speculative exploratory, test
• exploratory
• provisional exploratory
• untried initiatory, untested
• new innovative
• probationary preliminary, exploratory
• original innovative
• avant-garde innovative
• developmental
• hypothetical speculative
• trial-and-error
• creative initiatory, innovative
• radical innovative
• way-out go-ahead
• conjectural speculative
• unconventional unfamiliar
• revolutionary
• fact-finding

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Definition of experimental adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

experimental

• The school's experimental teaching methods include letting the children decide what to study.
• experimental theatre/art/music
• The equipment is still at the experimental stage.
• Doctors stress that this kind of treatment is still experimental.
• These techniques are still highly experimental.
• Actors and audience worked together to create three pieces of experimental theatre.

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Synonyms for Basic experimental framework

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BSCI 1510L Literature and Stats Guide: Terminology of experimental design

• 1 What is a scientific paper?
• 2 Referencing and accessing papers
• 2.1 Literature Cited
• 2.2 Accessing Scientific Papers
• 2.3 Traversing the web of citations
• 2.4 Keyword Searches
• 3 Style of scientific writing
• 3.1 Specific details regarding scientific writing
• 3.2 Components of a scientific paper
• 4 Summary of the Writing Guide and Further Information
• Appendix A: Calculation Final Concentrations
• 1 Formulas in Excel
• 2 Basic operations in Excel
• 3 Measurement and Variation
• 3.1 Describing Quantities and Their Variation
• 3.2 Samples Versus Populations
• 3.3 Calculating Descriptive Statistics using Excel
• 4 Variation and differences
• 5 Differences in Experimental Science
• 5.1 Aside: Commuting to Nashville
• 5.2 P and Detecting Differences in Variable Quantities
• 5.3 Statistical significance
• 5.4 A test for differences of sample means: 95% Confidence Intervals
• 5.5 Error bars in figures
• 5.6 Discussing statistics in your scientific writing
• 6 Scatter plot, trendline, and linear regression
• 7 The t-test of Means
• 8 Paired t-test
• 9 Two-Tailed and One-Tailed Tests
• 10 Variation on t-tests: ANOVA
• 11 Reporting the Results of a Statistical Test
• 12 Summary of statistical tests
• 1 Objectives
• 2 Project timeline
• 3 Background
• 4 Previous work in the BSCI 111 class
• 5 General notes about the project
• 6 About the paper
• 7 References

Sampling and experiments

The word "sampling" carries the connotation that we are simply collecting pre-existing information from our objects of study.  However, it is more common and often better practice for scientists to detect differences through a manipulative experiment , which is an attempt to create differences through changing factors in the environment.  Although the term "experiment" is often used loosely for any scientific investigation, it is technically a term that is reserved for investigations that seek to determine causation.  Framed in statistical terminology, in an experiment we attempt to increase variation due to one or more factors while decreasing the variation caused by all other factors by holding the other factors constant.

Important terms used in experimental design and their synonyms.

Factor .  An experimental factor is a measurable quantity which varies and which may cause a change or variation in another measurable quantity.  Examples could include: exposure to a drug, amount of water received, or season.  Simple experiments investigate only a single factor, while more complex experiments investigate several factors simultaneously.  A statistical analysis evaluates the effect of factors, so the list of "effects" in an analysis will correspond to the list of factors being tested.  The factor is sometimes called the independent variable and the effect is sometimes called the dependent variable .

Replicate .  Synonym: "individual" (in the case of observations rather than manipulations).  A replicate is a single trial in an experiment, or a single measurement in an observation. 

Sample.   A set of replicates observed or measured in an experiment.  The number of replicates is called the sample size (represented by N ).  A sample is assumed to be representative of a population , which is the set of all possible replicates. 

Group .  Replicates experiencing the same state of the experimental factor are members of a group.  In a simple experiment, the control group includes replicates that are lacking the experimental factor.  The treatment group includes replicates that experience the experimental factor.  

More complex experiments

In a more complex experiment, the term "treatment" is often used synonymously with "group".  There is often no single group that can be identified as "the control".  An experiment investigating the factor "season" could have treatment groups for summer, fall, winter, and spring.

Level .  An experimental factor having two or more quantitative values is described as having several levels.  For example, if the factor is exposure to a drug, there could be only two levels: "received drug" and "received placebo".  There could be more than two descriptive levels such as absent, low, and high, or the levels could be numeric, e.g. 0 mg, 10 mg, 50 mg, and 200 mg. 

In some cases, the experimental factor does not have discrete levels (i.e. it is a continuous factor).  In that case, each data point includes a measurement of both the size of the experimental factor and the size of the response.  For example, if an experiment is investigating the effect of light intensity on growth rate, each growth rate measurement would also have a measurement of the experimental factor (the light intensity).  We refer to these as "regression-like" experiments because they are usually analyzed using linear regression (Section 6.3 of the Excel Reference and Statistics Manual).

A more complex experiment can also investigate more than one experimental factor at once.  Such an experiment may be described as "2 factor" or "3 factor" (or "2 way" or "3 way").  For example, an experiment could simultaneously measure the effect of two factors, light intensity and water added, on growth rate.  The light intensity factor would be continuous and the water added factor could have three levels, low, medium, and high.

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Thesaurus Definition of basic

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• rudimentary
• introductory
• fundamental
• preliminary
• meat - and - potatoes
• abecedarian
• uncomplicated
• preparatory

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• sophisticated
• complicated

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• requirement
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