experiment
//ɪkˈspɛɹ.ɪ.mənt//
Forms
- Plural
- experiments
- present (v1)
- experiment
- past (v2)
- experimented
- past participle (v3)
- experimented
- present participle
- experimenting
- 3rd person singular
- experiments
Definitions
1.A test under controlled conditions made to either demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of something previously untried.
- South Korean officials announced last month that an experiment to create artificial rain did not provide the desired results.
- From her childhood she had been accustomed to watch, and often to aid, in her uncle's chemical experiments; she was, therefore, not at a loss, as a complete novice in the science would have been.
1.To try something to observe the results.
- I want to experiment with psychedelics.
2.To conduct an experiment.
- We're going to experiment on rats.
- Bob is a shameless tourist: Coit Tower, Fisherman's Wharf, Twin Peaks, ad infinitum. I think walking the streets with a map in hand looks dumb; experimenting is much more fun.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2011
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Word family
Etymology
From Middle English experiment
From Old French esperiment (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-.