experiment
English edit
Etymology edit
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-.
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ɪ.mənt/, /ɛkˈspɛɹ.ɪ.mənt/
- (US) IPA(key): /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/, /ɪkˈspɪɹ.ə.mənt/
Audio (US) (file)
- Hyphenation: ex‧per‧i‧ment
Noun edit
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 or likelihood of something previously untried.
- conduct an experiment
- carry out some experiments
- perform a scientific experiment
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Laboratory”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 327:
- 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.
- 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.
Audio (US) (file)
- South Korean officials announced last month that an experiment to create artificial rain did not provide the desired results.
- (obsolete) Experience, practical familiarity with something.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Pilot [...] Vpon his card and compas firmes his eye,
The maisters of his long experiment,
And to them does the steddy helme apply [...].
Derived terms edit
- blue bottle experiment
- control experiment
- double-slit experiment
- experimental
- factorial experiment
- forbidden experiment
- ganzfeld experiment
- gedanken experiment
- Hughes-Drever experiment
- Michelson-Morley experiment
- Milgram experiment
- noble experiment
- science experiment
- sexperiment
- thought experiment
- Valsalvian experiment
- Wizard of Oz experiment
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Verb edit
experiment (third-person singular simple present experiments, present participle experimenting, simple past and past participle experimented)
- (intransitive) To conduct an experiment.
- We're going to experiment on rats.
- 1951 October, “Models Assist Rolling Stock Design”, in Railway Magazine, page 647:
- As well as demonstrating operating facilities, full-size car body models are used for experimenting with new types of interior finish, systems of lighting, positioning of route diagrams and advertisements, and the best form of windscreens at doorways, and the height and location of handgrips and handrails.
- 1978 August 19, David Brill, “California Here I Come!”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 5, page 10:
- 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.
- (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.
- 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
- (transitive, obsolete) To test or ascertain by experiment; to try out; to make an experiment on.
- 1481, The Mirrour of the World, William Caxton, 1.5.22:
- Til they had experimented whiche was trewe, and who knewe most.
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References edit
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “experiment”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin experīmentum. First attested in 1460.[1]
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Central) [əks.pə.ɾiˈmen]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [əks.pə.ɾiˈment]
- IPA(key): (Valencian) [eks.pe.ɾiˈment]
Noun edit
experiment m (plural experiments)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- ^ “experiment”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
Further reading edit
- “experiment” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “experiment” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “experiment” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Czech edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin experīmentum.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
experiment m inan
Declension edit
singular | plural | |
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nominative | experiment | experimenty |
genitive | experimentu | experimentů |
dative | experimentu | experimentům |
accusative | experiment | experimenty |
vocative | experimente | experimenty |
locative | experimentu | experimentech |
instrumental | experimentem | experimenty |
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Further reading edit
- experiment in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- experiment in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
- experiment in Internetová jazyková příručka
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Dutch experiment, from Old French experiment, from Latin experimentum.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
experiment n (plural experimenten, diminutive experimentje n)
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Descendants edit
- → Indonesian: eksperimen
Occitan edit
Etymology edit
From Latin experīmentum.
Noun edit
experiment m (plural experiments)
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Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin experimentum.
Noun edit
experiment n (plural experimente)
Declension edit
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) experiment | experimentul | (niște) experimente | experimentele |
genitive/dative | (unui) experiment | experimentului | (unor) experimente | experimentelor |
vocative | experimentule | experimentelor |
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin experīmentum, attested from 1682.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
experiment n
Declension edit
Declension of experiment | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | experiment | experimentet | experiment | experimenten |
Genitive | experiments | experimentets | experiments | experimentens |
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References edit
- ^ experiment in Svensk ordbok.