experiment

See also: Experiment

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old French experiment (French expérience), from Latin experimentum (“experience, attempt, experiment, proof”), from experior (“to experience, to attempt”), itself from ex + *perior, in turn from Proto-Indo-European *per-.

PronunciationEdit

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ɪ.mənt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/

• Audio (US)

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• Hyphenation: ex‧per‧i‧ment

NounEdit

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 [...].

Derived termsEdit

• sexperiment

Related termsEdit

• experimental

TranslationsEdit

test under controlled conditions

• Bulgarian: опит (bg) m (opit), експеримент (bg) m (eksperiment)
• Czech: pokus (cs) m, experiment (cs) m
• Dutch: experiment (nl) n, proef (nl) f
• Esperanto: eksperimento
• Finnish: (tieteellinen) koe
• French: expérience (fr) f
• Georgian: ექსპერიმენტი (eksṗerimenṭi)
• German: Experiment (de) n, Versuch (de) m
• Greek: πείραμα (el) n (peírama)
• Hebrew: ניסוי‎‎ m
• Irish: tástáil f
• Japanese: 実験 (ja) (じっけん, jikken)

• Latin: periculum (la) n
• Macedonian: опит m (ópit), експеримент m (eksperimént)
• Malay: uji kaji, eksperimen
• Maori: whakamātauranga, whakamātau
• Polish: eksperyment (pl) m inan, doświadczenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: experimento (pt) m, experiência (pt) f
• Russian: экспериме́нт (ru) m (eksperimént), о́пыт (ru) m (ópyt)
• Spanish: experimento (es) m
• Swedish: experiment (sv) n
• Tagalog: tilaw
• Telugu: ప్రయోగము (te) (prayōgamu)
• Turkish: deney (n), tecrübe (tr)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} eksperimen (id), ^{(please verify)} percobaan (id)

• Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} eksperimentas m, ^{(please verify)} bandymas m

VerbEdit

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 termsEdit

• experimenter

TranslationsEdit

to conduct an experiment

• Bulgarian: експериментирам (eksperimentiram)
• Czech: experimentovat (cs)
• Dutch: experimenteren (nl)
• Esperanto: eksperimenti
• Finnish: kokeilla (fi), 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 (eksperimentíra)
• Maori: whakamātau
• Polish: eksperymentować, przeprowadzać doświadczenie
• Portuguese: experimentar (pt)
• Quechua: yañay
• Russian: экспериментировать (ru) (eksperimentirovatʹ), производить or проводить or ставить опыт
• Spanish: experimentar (es)
• Swedish: experimentera (sv)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} eksperimen (id)

• Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} eksperimentuoti

ReferencesEdit

• “experiment” in John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors, The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.

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CatalanEdit

NounEdit

experiment m (plural experiments)

1. experiment

Related termsEdit

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

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CzechEdit

NounEdit

experiment m

1. experiment

SynonymsEdit

• pokus m

Related termsEdit

• experimentovat
• experimentální

Further readingEdit

• experiment in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• experiment in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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DutchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old French experiment, from Latin experimentum.

PronunciationEdit

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• Hyphenation: ex‧pe‧ri‧ment

NounEdit

experiment n (plural experimenten, diminutive experimentje n)

1. experiment

SynonymsEdit

• proef
• test

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SwedishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ɛksp(ɛ)rɪˈmɛnt/

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NounEdit

experiment n

1. experiment

DeclensionEdit

Declension of experiment
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	experiment	experimentet	experiment	experimenten
Genitive	experiments	experimentets	experiments	experimentens