experiment
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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-.
PronunciationEdit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɪkˈspɛ.ɹɪ.mənt/, /ɛkˈspɛ.ɹɪ.mənt/
- (US) IPA(key): /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/, /ɪkˈspɪɹ.ə.mənt/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: ex‧per‧i‧ment
NounEdit
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, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ethel Churchill, volume 2, 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, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto vi:
- Pilot [...] Vpon his card and compas firmes his eye,
The maisters of his long experiment,
And to them does the steddy helme apply [...].
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VerbEdit
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.
- (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 William Caxton, The Mirrour of the World 1.5.22:
- Til they had experimented whiche was trewe, and who knewe most.
- 1481 William Caxton, The Mirrour of the World 1.5.22:
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ReferencesEdit
- John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “experiment”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin experīmentum, attested from 1460.[1]
NounEdit
experiment m (plural experiments)
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ “experiment”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2022
Further readingEdit
- “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.
CzechEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin experīmentum
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
experiment m inan
DeclensionEdit
singular | plural | |
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nominative | experiment | experimenty |
genitive | experimentu | experimentů |
dative | experimentu | experimentům |
accusative | experiment | experimenty |
vocative | experimente | experimenty |
locative | experimentu, experimentě | experimentech |
instrumental | experimentem | experimenty |
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Further readingEdit
- experiment in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- experiment in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle Dutch experiment, from Old French experiment, from Latin experimentum.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
experiment n (plural experimenten, diminutive experimentje n)
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DescendantsEdit
- → Indonesian: eksperimen
OccitanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin experīmentum.
NounEdit
experiment m (plural experiments)
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RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Khylla Raizah S. Tapulao
NounEdit
experiment n (plural experimente)
DeclensionEdit
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 |
SwedishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin experīmentum, attested from 1682.[1]
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
experiment n
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Declension of experiment | ||||
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Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | experiment | experimentet | experiment | experimenten |
Genitive | experiments | experimentets | experiments | experimentens |
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ReferencesEdit
- ^ experiment in Svensk ordbok.