Experiment
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɪkˈsper.ɪ.mənt/
Origin
From Old French experiment (French: expérience), from Latin experimentum.
Full definition of experiment
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.
- (obsolete) Experience, practical familiarity with something.
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Verb
- (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.
- (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.