experimental

Adjective

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Comparative

more experimental

Superlative

most experimental

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

experimentals

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

1. 1.Pertaining to or founded on experiment.

   • Chemistry is an experimental science.

2. 2.Serving to be experimented upon; used in an experiment.

   • 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. 3.Serving as an experiment; serving to experiment.

   • In its sixty-year history here, some 4,170 engines of the 4-6-0 type have been constructed. This is the vast sequel of that bold experimental step of the Highland Railway in 1894.

4. 4.Experiential, empirical.

   • What did the experimental set-up look like? What was connected to what and how?

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.The subject of an experiment.

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