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experimental

[ ik-sper- uh - men -tl ]

an experimental science.

The new program is still in an experimental stage.

an experimental airplane.

experimental knowledge.

  • something that is experimental.

/ ɪkˌspɛrɪˈmɛntəl /

an experimental study

experimental evidence

an experimental artist

an experimental rule in football

Derived Forms

  • exˌperiˈmentally , adverb

Other Words From

  • ex·peri·mental·ly adverb
  • nonex·peri·mental adjective
  • nonex·peri·mental·ly adverb
  • postex·peri·mental adjective
  • preex·peri·mental adjective
  • pseudo·ex·peri·mental adjective
  • pseudo·ex·peri·mental·ly adverb
  • quasi-ex·peri·mental adjective
  • quasi-ex·peri·mental·ly adverb
  • semi·ex·peri·mental adjective
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  • unex·peri·mental adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of experimental 1

Example Sentences

Einstein was doubted for two decades, and cosmologists are still searching for experimental proofs of relativity.

Instead, Utah and Washington both had different counties adopt the system at different times, providing a shifting set of experimental and control conditions.

The team searched for experimental issues that could explain the result, but came up empty.

The country has offered experimental vaccines to officials at state enterprises in China.

If evolution was a scientist, then centenarians, and the rest of us, are two experimental groups in action.

The course Jackson taught at VMI, “Natural and Experimental Philosophy,” was brutally difficult.

I made experimental commercials in the experimental division of a production house, Film X, that made commercials for ad agencies.

All the Virgin Galactic test flying was done under a special experimental permit issued by the Federal Aviation Administration.

“Rather than the finalized models, we display the experimental work-in-progress ones,” Migarou says.

But owing to another experimental vaccine he received, its impossible to say whether the blood is what saved him.

Several Americans, we are informed, have gallantly offered themselves for experimental purposes.

Neither I nor my companion would have had the courage to have gone in her on her experimental trip.

The work of this department is experimental and investigative, with a view to the improvement of agriculture in all its branches.

He was the advocate of experimental rather than theoretical systems of medicine, and early adopted the practice of inoculation.

He appeared as cool and steady as if he were commanding on an experimental test instead of making his first rescue in the air.

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  • She is an architect known for boldly experimental designs .
  • These approaches remain experimental and are not without risks .
  • Mice and rats are often used as experimental animals because they are small and breed quickly .
  • be ahead of the curve idiom
  • innovatively
  • next-generation
  • the avant-garde
  • the ink is not dry/still wet idiom
  • unhackneyed
  • unprecedented
  • up-to-the-minute idiom

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What does the word experimental mean?

There are 17 meanings listed in OED's entry for the word experimental , seven of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

How common is the word experimental ?

How is the word experimental pronounced?

British english, u.s. english, where does the word experimental come from.

Earliest known use

Middle English

The earliest known use of the word experimental is in the Middle English period (1150—1500).

OED's earliest evidence for experimental is from around 1449, in the writing of Reginald Pecock, bishop of Chichester and religious author.

experimental is formed within English, by derivation.

Etymons: experiment n. , ‑al suffix 1 .

Nearby entries

  • experient, adj. & n. ?1440–
  • experiential, adj. 1658–
  • experientialism, n. 1865–
  • experientialist, n. 1866–
  • experientially, adv. 1647–
  • experiential philosopher, n. 1866–
  • experiential philosophy, n. 1848–
  • experiently, adv. 1473–1849
  • experiment, n. a1382–
  • experiment, v. 1481–
  • experimental, adj. & n. c1449–
  • experimental archaeology, n. 1961–
  • experimental farm, n. 1739–
  • experimentalism, n. 1808–
  • experimentalist, n. & adj. 1677–
  • experimentalize, v. 1751–
  • experimentalizer, n. 1831–
  • experimentalizing, n. 1809–1929
  • experimentally, adv. a1460–
  • experimental method, n. 1676–
  • experimentalness, n. 1695–

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Various Bloomfieldians continued to refine and with this approach.
When this flip-flop is triggered, it provides an output to the pulse generator to start the in synchrony with the video signal.
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What's in it for dictators who want no part of a democratic in their region?
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The results of the are published in Wednesday's edition of Nature.
Just keep in mind that you will be undertaking a science with no guarantee of the outcome!
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As the constraints of lead type disappeared, designers began to with letters, creating many new types of complicated letterforms.
Northern European farmers also began to with the three-field system of crop rotation.
Since I read the cards and runes too, maybe divination, thought and fable-telling can all flow together for me.
So toodle-pip for the coming week, and I will let you know how the works out.
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He presented temperature data from three Arkansas stations to show the unusually high temperatures.
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The total amount of data collected per will go up by orders of magnitude with this system.
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The viscosity of the dextran solution chosen for the go-and-stop allowed testing most red cells of the population.
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This intimate ritual is both an act of worship and an in agronomy.
According to the director, it is a novel in producing an action film cost-effectively.
He knew that our in self-government could fail if he had a serious lapse of judgment.
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The studies how miscible fluids interact without the interference of gravity.
Starting the blog was an in trying a few different ways to address the limitations of our political process.
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As an in laziness, I decided not to shave on Saturday and Sunday.
It's remarkable that the editors didn't grok this basic fact, and put a halt to the entire ridiculous before it even got started.
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The first to produce results explored the patterns of seed flight.
He followed Jason and pretty soon he was looking at the tabulated results from their the day before.
The second tested whether males responded to water-soluble or organically soluble pheromones on female lines.
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A richly layered anti-realist film, it showed a real courage and braveness to explore and formally.
However, as will become evident, the results of the are so strong that our mistake could not have made any difference.
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The author applies the thought used by Einstein himself to design a thought for its disproval.
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The use of blue light in this is important because white light illumination caused significant heating artifacts.
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See yourself flying on a magic carpet over Frankfurt using blue-screen technology or with some of the earliest film technology.
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Therefore, results may remain equivocal or questionable regardless of the number of times the is performed.
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The graduate student of the well-known professor had furthered the with mice blastocoels.
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But by 4 February 1797, when the mandates were officially demonetized, the revolutionary with paper money was at an end.
His earlier life of self-indulgence had been unsatisfying, as was his six-year with ascetic penances.
I just thought I would pass along the results of an I did with my waffle baker.
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We were embarking on a real-life into whether it's worth paying the extra to have professionals.
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Psychic volunteers are taking part in an to discover whether people really can predict the future.
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And when they repeated the without interactions between the atoms, they saw obvious evidence for spreading of the wave packet.
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There was once a famous physicist by the name of Erwin Schrodinger, and in 1935 he posed a thought involving a very famous cat.
At first glance, this analysis seems to be beyond cynical, but a simple thought would suggest that the idea is not entirely unfounded.
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They had seen Murray blister baseballs from the right side in previous years, so they flocked to Asheville to stop the in its tracks.
They were naive with respect to the purpose of the experiment and none of them had participated in the previous .
As space is three-dimensional, he went on to with three-dimensional geometric solids.
Instead, it's a sadly bloated and floundering example of an gone awry.
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True thought of the wisdom of the erases unclearness and lack of spiritual knowledge.
Sometimes I with other types of paper, such as toilet roll, tissue paper or colored paper.
But since we had a few unexpected hours on our hands, we took the time to and iron out the kinks.
The has shown positive results, and presently, the infants are living normally.
It had begun as an to prove the meaninglessness of best-seller lists, or indeed any standard that equates quantity with quality.
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Part of the will be to see at what age and at what time of year the plant is best harvested.
This involved a Bunsen burner, glass beakers, and a chemical, among other things.
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Perhaps the best-designed I've seen took place in a small woodland chapel at a Benedictine monastery in Massachusetts.
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We used the data from the field to estimate recruitment curves for beetle populations on each genotype.
The great crime-busting did not merely fail, it flopped spectacularly.
But I'm only working from memory and it's not something I really want to do an with here at my desk.
The was explicitly designed to capture the natural seasonal changes in population densities of the gerbils.
Further reflexion and showed me my subject strangled in that extreme of rigour.
As an I bought in 12 different varieties of spray chrysanthemum from a specialist nursery.
Let me describe the sort of that's being done in a lot of labs right now.
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Figure 3C shows an autoradiogram of a typical in vitro translation in wheat-germ extract.
Being a scientist at heart, Gorman set up a control with a man born at the same time and the same place as himself.
This example also illustrates well the interplay between and theory, which Riordan seems to see rather one-sidedly.
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The union becomes an in Americanization more than a loving relationship.
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It reminded me of a science that involved heating a block of tungsten to light it up.
The development is not a nostalgic repackaging of a lost urban history, but a thoughtful and optimistic in contemporary urbanism.
If you can't decide which method works best for you, with one each day.
We will also plant a new species of hedge as we with replacing the aging ligustrums along our perimeter.
To perform this a little oil of turpentine was placed at the bottom of a glass tube surrounded with boiling liquid air.
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There were in the course of construction in the shops of the North Eastern Railway Company at York several motorcars, which were to be used as an by the company.
The easily excitable man with the curly hair has decided to join myself and Jared in this little and has already posted his first song.
Another nontemporal dealt with motivic abstraction.
If blisters are developing on your heel, with different socks to make sure the material isn't bunching up or causing your foot to sweat.
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To further investigate the effects of prey contrast on predator behavior, I conducted an with young chicks as predators on live aposematic and nonaposematic prey.
The various willingness to pay positions are taken from an underlying demand curve that is not revealed to the students until after the is completed.
Prior to commencing the flicker photometry was used to adjust the energy of the green and blue-green cues to be approximately isoluminant with the grey frames.
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All known DNA before this consisted of four letters that determine what proteins a cell makes.
This also used four canonical locative terms for completeness.
A landlord has called for 24-hour opening times in pubs across Bolton after an to open his bar for 36 hours during the New Year proved a success.
As the was designed to assess the effect of mating on female egg fertility, it was important to remove sterile females from the data set.
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If the same is done with spleens, however, each spleen grows much less than normal so that the final total mass of the spleens is equivalent to one normal spleen.
Upon termination of the all bass were collected and remeasured.
She says that at present, students are able to learn, and practice with the preparation of clay and hand-making techniques for biscuit and glaze firing.
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Definition of experiment

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Definition of experiment  (Entry 2 of 2)

intransitive verb

  • experimentation

Examples of experiment in a Sentence

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Word History

Middle English, "testing, proof, remedy," borrowed from Anglo-French esperiment, borrowed from Latin experīmentum "testing, experience, proof," from experīrī "to put to the test, attempt, have experience of, undergo" + -mentum -ment — more at experience entry 1

verbal derivative of experiment entry 1

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

1787, in the meaning defined above

Phrases Containing experiment

  • control experiment
  • controlled experiment
  • experiment station
  • pre - experiment
  • thought experiment

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Definition of experiment verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

present simple I / you / we / they experiment /ɪkˈsperɪment/ /ɪkˈsperɪment/
he / she / it experiments /ɪkˈsperɪments/ /ɪkˈsperɪments/
past simple experimented /ɪkˈsperɪmentɪd/ /ɪkˈsperɪmentɪd/
past participle experimented /ɪkˈsperɪmentɪd/ /ɪkˈsperɪmentɪd/
-ing form experimenting /ɪkˈsperɪmentɪŋ/ /ɪkˈsperɪmentɪŋ/
  • After experimenting at Columbia University, he realized that fission was the key to releasing nuclear energy.
  • experiment on somebody/something Some people feel that experimenting on animals is wrong.
  • They experimented successfully on the plants to discover disease-resistant varieties.
  • experiment with something The country had secretly experimented with biological weapons for years.
  • successfully
  • continue to

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  1. Examples of 'Experiment' in a Sentence

    Most of the experiments have to do with the shape of the blowing edge—the place where one edge of a flute's tube has been thinned, forming a tiny ridge that's positioned against the bottom lip to receive the breath. — Jaron Lanier, The New Yorker, 22 July 2023. So began the rare experiment of letting a student coach a team in which ...

  2. Examples of "Experimental" in a Sentence

    The earlier work of " Young Belgium " in poetry was experimental in character, and was marked by extravagances of style and a general exuberance which provoked much hostile criticism. 0. 0. Good wine is made in the fertile vineyards of the district, and there is a government experimental station for viticulture.

  3. experiment noun

    Collocations Scientific research Scientific research Theory. formulate/ advance a theory/ hypothesis; build/ construct/ create/ develop a simple/ theoretical/ mathematical model; develop/ establish/ provide/ use a theoretical/ conceptual framework; advance/ argue/ develop the thesis that…; explore an idea/ a concept/ a hypothesis; make a prediction/ an inference

  4. Examples of "Experiment" in a Sentence

    Similarly in the case of the weighing in water, account must be taken of the buoyancy of the weights, and also, if absolute densities be required, of the density of water at the temperature of the experiment. 1. 0. Lord Kelvin's experiment with a current of gas forced through a porous plug is also given.

  5. Experimental Definition & Meaning

    The meaning of EXPERIMENTAL is of, relating to, or based on experience or experiment. How to use experimental in a sentence. of, relating to, or based on experience or experiment; serving the ends of or used as a means of experimentation… See the full definition Games & Quizzes ...

  6. experimental

    Definition of experimental adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

  7. EXPERIMENTAL

    EXPERIMENTAL definition: 1. using new methods, ideas, substances, etc. that have not been tried before, usually in order to…. Learn more.

  8. EXPERIMENTAL Definition & Meaning

    Experimental definition: pertaining to, derived from, or founded on experiment. See examples of EXPERIMENTAL used in a sentence.

  9. EXPERIMENTAL definition in American English

    1. pertaining to, derived from, or founded on experiment. an experimental science. 2. of the nature of an experiment; tentative. The new program is still in an experimental stage. 3. functioning as an experiment or used for experimentation. an experimental airplane.

  10. Experimental

    The adjective experimental is good for describing things that are still in a trial stage. An experimental drug is usually tested in a lab for years before being used on patients. ... DISCLAIMER: These example sentences appear in various news sources and books to reflect the usage of the word 'experimental'.

  11. Experiment in a sentence (esp. good sentence like quote, proverb...)

    Meaning: [ɪk'sperɪmənt] n. 1. the act of conducting a controlled test or investigation 2. the testing of an idea 3. a venture at something new or different. v. 1. to conduct a test or investigation 2. try something new, as in order to gain experience. Random good picture Not show. 1. Facts can be established by observation and experiment. 2.

  12. Examples of 'Experimental' in a Sentence

    Definition of experimental. Synonyms for experimental. The fuel is being used on an experimental basis. His works were considered the most experimental in the show and earned high praise from the press. — Shantay Robinson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024. Albini was a giant of punk and experimental rock music from the '80s to the present ...

  13. EXPERIMENTAL definition

    EXPERIMENTAL meaning: 1. using new methods, ideas, substances, etc. that have not been tried before, usually in order to…. Learn more.

  14. experiment noun

    1 a scientific test that is done in order to study what happens and to gain new knowledge to do/perform/conduct an experiment proved by experiment laboratory experiments Many people do not like the idea of experiments on animals. The results of the experiment were inconclusive. Facts can be established by observation and experiment. Topic Collocations Scientific Research theory

  15. Experimental Definition & Meaning

    Experimental definition: Of or based on experience rather than on theory or authority. ... Adjective Noun. Filter. adjective Based on, tested by, or having the nature of, experiment. Webster's New World. ... Experimental Sentence Examples

  16. experiment, n. meanings, etymology and more

    The earliest known use of the noun is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for is from before 1382, in . experiment is of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin.

  17. experimental, adj. & n. meanings, etymology and more

    The earliest known use of the word experimental is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for experimental is from around 1449, in the writing of Reginald Pecock, bishop of Chichester and religious author. experimental is formed within English, by derivation.

  18. Examples of 'experiment' in a sentence

    Examples from Collins dictionaries. He carried out a series of experiments on the properties of plants. This question can be answered only by experiment. In 1857 Mendel started experimenting with peas in his monastery garden. The scientists have already experimented at each other's test sites.

  19. experimental adjective

    Definition of experimental adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

  20. EXPERIMENTAL definition and meaning

    4 meanings: 1. relating to, based on, or having the nature of experiment 2. based on or derived from experience; empirical 3..... Click for more definitions.

  21. How to use experiment in a sentence

    Here are some examples. Sentence Examples. Bacon emphasized that this ordeal of experiment was to be heroic testing, not the torture of a slavish and submissive victim. Although this may sound like an old wives' tale, I have seen prodigious results from this experiment on several occasions. Milgram's shocking experiment years ago demonstrated ...

  22. Experiment Definition & Meaning

    The meaning of EXPERIMENT is test, trial. How to use experiment in a sentence.

  23. experiment verb

    [intransitive] to do a scientific experiment or experiments After experimenting at Columbia University, he realized that fission was the key to releasing nuclear energy. experiment on somebody/something Some people feel that experimenting on animals is wrong.; They experimented successfully on the plants to discover disease-resistant varieties.