experiment

From Old French experiment (French expérience), from Latin experimentum (“experience, attempt, experiment”), from experior (“to experience, to attempt”), itself from ex + *perior, in turn from Proto-Indo-European *per-.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ɪ.mənt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/

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• Hyphenation: ex‧per‧i‧ment

experiment (plural experiments)

1. 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, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     South Korean officials announced last month that an experiment to create artificial rain did not provide the desired results.

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2. (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 [...].

• sexperiment

• experimental

experiment (third-person singular simple present experiments, present participle experimenting, simple past and past participle experimented)

1. (intransitive) To conduct an experiment.
2. (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.

3. (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.

• experimenter

• “experiment” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.

experiment m (plural experiments)

1. experiment

• experimentable
• experimentació
• experimentador
• experimental
• experimentalisme
• experimentalista
• experimentalment
• experimentar
• experimentat

experiment m

1. experiment

• pokus m

• experimentovat
• experimentální

• experiment in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• experiment in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

From Old French experiment, from Latin experimentum.

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• Hyphenation: ex‧pe‧ri‧ment

experiment n (plural experimenten, diminutive experimentje n)

1. experiment

• proef
• test

• IPA^(key): /ɛksp(ɛ)rɪˈmɛnt/

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experiment n

1. experiment