experiment

See also: Experiment

English

Etymology

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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

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

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• Hyphenation: ex‧per‧i‧ment

Noun

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.
   • 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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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 terms

• sexperiment

Related terms

• experimental

Translations

test under controlled conditions

• Albanian: eksperiment (sq) m
• Arabic: تَجْرِبَة f (tajriba), اِخْتِبَار m (iḵtibār)
• Armenian: փորձ (hy) (pʻorj), փորձարկում (hy) (pʻorjarkum)
• Azerbaijani: təcrübə (az), eksperiment
• Bashkir: тәжрибә (təjribə)
• Belarusian: эксперыме́нт m (ekspjerymjént), до́след m (dósljed), во́пыт m (vópyt), про́ба f (próba)
• Bengali: পরীক্ষা (porikkha)
• Bulgarian: опит (bg) m (opit), експеримент (bg) m (eksperiment)
• Burmese: အစမ်း (my) (a.cam:), အစမ်းအသပ် (my) (a.cam:a.sap)
• Catalan: experiment (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 實驗／实验 (zh) (shíyàn), 实验 (zh) (shíyàn)

• Czech: pokus (cs) m, experiment (cs) m
• Danish: eksperiment n, forsøg n
• Dutch: experiment (nl) n, proef (nl) f
• Esperanto: eksperimento
• Estonian: eksperiment
• Finnish: (tieteellinen) koe
• French: expérience (fr) f
• Galician: experimento (gl) m
• Georgian: ექსპერიმენტი (eksṗerimenṭi)
• German: Experiment (de) n, Versuch (de) m
• Greek: πείραμα (el) n (peírama)

  Ancient: πεῖρα f (peîra)

• Hebrew: ניסוי \ נִסּוּי m (nisúi)
• Hindi: प्रयोग (hi) m (prayog), तजुर्बा m (tajurbā), परीक्षा (hi) f (parīkṣā)
• Hungarian: kísérlet (hu), próba (hu)
• Icelandic: tilraun (is) f
• Irish: tástáil f, turgnamh m
• Italian: esperimento (it) m
• Japanese: 実験 (ja) (じっけん, jikken)
• Kazakh: тәжірибе (kk) (täjıribe), эксперимент (éksperiment)
• Khmer: បរីក្សា (paʼreksaa), ពិសោធន៍ (km) (pisaot)
• Korean: 실험 (ko) (silheom)
• Kyrgyz: тажрыйба (ky) (tajrıyba), эксперимент (ky) (eksperiment)
• Lao: ການທົດລອງ (lo) (kān thot lǭng)
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• Latin: experimentum n, periculum (la) n
• Latvian: eksperiments m, mēģinājums m
• Lithuanian: eksperimentas m
• Macedonian: опит m (opit), експериме́нт m (eksperimént)
• Malay: uji kaji, eksperimen
• Maori: whakamātauranga, whakamātau
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: eksperiment n, forsøk (no) n

• Occitan: experiment m
• Pashto: آزمايش m (āzmāyéš), تجربه (ps) f (taǰrebá)
• Persian: آزمایش (fa) (âzmâyeš), تجربه (fa) (tajrobe)
• Polish: eksperyment (pl) m inan, doświadczenie (pl) n, próba (pl) f
• Portuguese: experimento (pt) m, experiência (pt) f
• Romanian: experiment (ro) n
• Russian: экспериме́нт (ru) m (eksperimént), о́пыт (ru) m (ópyt), про́ба (ru) f (próba)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: експерѝмент m, о̀пит m

  Roman: eksperìment (sh) m, òpit (sh) m

• Slovak: pokus m, experiment (sk) m
• Slovene: poskus (sl) m, eksperiment m
• Spanish: experimento (es) m
• Swahili: jaribio (sw)
• Swedish: experiment (sv) n, försök (sv) n
• Tagalog: tilaw, eksperimento (tl)
• Tajik: озмоиш (tg) (ozmoyiš), таҷриба (tg) (tajriba), таҷруба (tajruba)
• Tatar: тәҗрибә (tt) (täcribä), эксперимент (eksperiment)
• Telugu: ప్రయోగము (te) (prayōgamu)
• Thai: การทดลอง (th) (gaan-tót-lɔɔng)
• Turkish: deney (n), tecrübe (tr)
• Turkmen: eksperiment, tejribe
• Ukrainian: експериме́нт m (eksperymént), до́слід (uk) m (dóslid), до́свід (uk) m (dósvid), спро́ба f (spróba)
• Urdu: تجربہ m (tajurbâ)
• Uyghur: تەجرىبە‎ (tejribe‎)
• Uzbek: eksperiment (uz), tajriba (uz)
• Vietnamese: thí nghiệm (vi)
• Yiddish: עקספּערימענט (eksperiment)

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

Verb

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 terms

• experimenter

Translations

to conduct an experiment

• Armenian: փորձարկել (hy) (pʻorjarkel)
• 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)
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• Macedonian: експерименти́ра (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)
• Swahili: -jaribu (sw)
• Swedish: experimentera (sv)
• Thai: ทดลอง (th) (tót-lɔɔng)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

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

References

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

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin experīmentum.

Noun

experiment m (plural experiments)

1. experiment

Derived terms

• experimental
• experimentar

Further reading

• “experiment” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “experiment”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “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.

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛkspɛrɪmɛnt]

Noun

1. experiment

Synonyms

• pokus m

Related terms

• experimentovat
• experimentální

Further reading

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Dutch

Etymology

From Old French experiment, from Latin experimentum.

Pronunciation

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• Hyphenation: ex‧pe‧ri‧ment

Noun

experiment n (plural experimenten, diminutive experimentje n)

1. experiment

Synonyms

• proef
• test

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛksp(ɛ)rɪˈmɛnt/

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Noun

experiment n

1. experiment

Declension

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