experimental
See also: expérimental
English edit
Etymology edit
experiment + -al[1]
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
experimental (comparative more experimental, superlative most experimental)
- Pertaining to or founded on experiment.
- Chemistry is an experimental science.
- (sciences) Serving to be experimented upon; used in an experiment.
- 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 541:
- 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 […].
- Serving as an experiment; serving to experiment.
- his experimental band
- an experimental engine
- 2012 March-April, Colin Allen, “Do I See What You See?”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 26 April 2012, page 168:
- Numerous experimental tests and other observations have been offered in favor of animal mind reading, and although many scientists are skeptical, others assert that humans are not the only species capable of representing what others do and don’t perceive and know.
- Experiential, empirical.
- experimental knowledge
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
of or pertaining to an experiment
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serving to be experimented upon; used in an experiment
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Noun edit
experimental (plural experimentals)
- The subject of an experiment.
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “experimental”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Catalan edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
experimental m or f (masculine and feminine plural experimentals)
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Further reading edit
- “experimental” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “experimental”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “experimental” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “experimental” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French edit
Adjective edit
experimental (feminine experimentale, masculine plural experimentaux, feminine plural experimentales)
- Misspelling of expérimental.
Galician edit
Adjective edit
experimental m or f (plural experimentais)
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Further reading edit
- “experimental” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Interlingua edit
Adjective edit
experimental (not comparable)
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Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
experimental m or f (plural experimentais)
- experimental (of, pertaining to or being an experiment)
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Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French expérimental, from Latin experimentalis. By surface analysis, experiment + -al.
Adjective edit
experimental m or n (feminine singular experimentală, masculine plural experimentali, feminine and neuter plural experimentale)
Declension edit
Declension of experimental
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | experimental | experimentală | experimentali | experimentale | ||
definite | experimentalul | experimentala | experimentalii | experimentalele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | experimental | experimentale | experimentali | experimentale | ||
definite | experimentalului | experimentalei | experimentalilor | experimentalelor |
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
experimental m or f (masculine and feminine plural experimentales)
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Further reading edit
- “experimental”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014