experimental

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɨkspɛɹəˈmɛntəl/, /ɨkˌspɛɹəˈmɛntəl/

Adjective

experimental

1. Pertaining to or founded on experiment.

   Chemistry is an experimental science.

2. (sciences) Serving to be experimented upon; used in an experiment.
   • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 541:

     Brown-Séquard, noting that Addison's disease involved the failure of the adrenal (or suprarenal) glands near the kidneys, removed them in experimental animals, and thus proved they were necessary for life […].

3. Serving as an experiment; serving to experiment.

   his experimental band

   an experimental engine

4. Experiential, empirical.

   experimental knowledge

Translations

• German: experimentell
• Italian: sperimentale
• Portuguese: experimental
• Russian: эксперимента́льный
• Spanish: experimental

Noun

experimental (plural experimentals)

1. The subject of an experiment.

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