experiment

See also Experiment

English

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɪkˈsper.ɪ.mənt/, X-SAMPA: /Ik"spEr.I.m@nt/

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Etymology

From Old French experiment (French: expérience), from Latin experimentum.

Noun

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.
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 [...].

Related terms

• experimental

Translations

test under controlled conditions

• Bulgarian: опит (bg) (opit) m, експеримент (bg) (eksperiment) m
• Czech: pokus (cs) m, experiment (cs) m
• Dutch: experiment (nl) n, proef (nl) f
• Esperanto: eksperimento (eo)
• Finnish: (tieteellinen) koe
• French: expérience (fr) f
• Georgian: ექსპერიმენტი (ka) (ek’sperimenti)
• German: Experiment (de) n, Versuch (de) m
• Greek: πείραμα (el) (peírama) n
• Hebrew: ניסוי (he) m

• Japanese: 実験 (じっけん, jikken)
• Latin: periculum (la) n
• Macedonian: опит (mk) (ópit) m, експеримент (mk) (eksperimént) m
• Polish: eksperyment (pl) m, doświadczenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: experimento m, experiência/experiéncia f
• Russian: эксперимент m, опыт m
• Spanish: experimento (es) m
• Swedish: experiment (sv) n
• Telugu: ప్రయోగము (prayOgamu)
• Turkish: deney (n)

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• Indonesian: eksperimen, percobaan
• Lithuanian: eksperimentas m, bandymas m

Verb

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.

Derived terms

• experimenter

Translations

to conduct an experiment

• Bulgarian: експериментирам (bg) (eksperimentiram)
• Czech: experimentovat (cs)
• Dutch: experimenteren (nl)
• Esperanto: eksperimenti (eo)
• Finnish: kokeilla, tehdä koe
• French: expérimenter (fr)
• German: experimentieren (de)

• Greek: πειραματίζομαι (el) (peiramatízomai)
• Japanese: 実験する (じっけんする, jikken-suru)
• Macedonian: експериментира (mk) (eksperimentíra)
• Polish: eksperymentować, przeprowadzać doświadczenie
• Russian: экспериментировать, производить or проводить or ставить опыт
• Spanish: experimentar (es)
• Swedish: experimentera (sv)

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Translations to be checked

• Indonesian: eksperimen
• Lithuanian: eksperimentuoti

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, 1989

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Catalan

Noun

experiment m (plural experiments)

1. experiment

Related terms

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

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Czech

Noun

experiment m

1. experiment

Synonyms

• pokus m

Related terms

• experimentovat
• experimentální

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Dutch

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Noun

experiment n (plural experimenten, diminutive experimentje)

1. experiment

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Swedish

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Noun

experiment n

1. experiment

Declension

Declension of experiment

	singular		plural
Neuter	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	experiment	experimentet	experiment	experimenten
genitive	experiments	experimentets	experiments	experimentens