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.
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- 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
- 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
Translations[edit]
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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.
- (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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Translations[edit]
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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]
From Latin experīmentum, attested from 1460.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /əks.pə.ɾiˈment/
- (Central) IPA(key): /əks.pə.ɾiˈmen/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /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, 2023
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 |
Related terms[edit]
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)
Related terms[edit]
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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 |
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ experiment in Svensk ordbok.
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