experiment
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
experiment (plural experiments)
- A test under controlled conditions made to either demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy of something previously untried.
- 2019, [https://web.archive.org/web/20190311070055/https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/south-korea-proposes-rain-project-with-china-to-cut-pollution/4819207.html VOA Learning English] (public domain)
- South Korean officials announced last month that an experiment to create artificial rain did not provide the desired results.
- South Korean officials announced last month that an experiment to create artificial rain did not provide the desired results.
- 2019, [https://web.archive.org/web/20190311070055/https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/south-korea-proposes-rain-project-with-china-to-cut-pollution/4819207.html VOA Learning English] (public domain)
- (obsolete) Experience, practical familiarity with something.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:
- Pilot [...] Vpon his card and compas firmes his eye, / The maisters of his long experiment, / And to them does the steddy helme apply [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:
- French: expérience
- German: Experiment, Versuch
- Italian: esperimento
- Portuguese: experimento, experiência
- Russian: экспериме́нт
- Spanish: experimento
experiment (experiments, present participle experimenting; past and past participle experimented)
- (intransitive) To conduct an experiment.
- (transitive, obsolete) To experience; to feel; to perceive; to detect.
- 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
- The Earth, the which may have carried us about perpetually ... without our being ever able to experiment its rest.
- 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
- (transitive, obsolete) To test or ascertain by experiment; to try out; to make an experiment on.
- 1481 William Caxton, The Mirrour of the World 1.5.22:
- Til they had experimented whiche was trewe, and who knewe most.
- 1481 William Caxton, The Mirrour of the World 1.5.22:
- French: expérimenter
- German: experimentieren
- Portuguese: experimentar
- Russian: экспериментировать
- Spanish: experimentar
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