experimental

See also: expérimental

English

Etymology

experiment +‎ -al

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɨkspɛɹəˈmɛntəl/, /ɨkˌspɛɹəˈmɛntəl/
• Rhymes: -ɛntəl

Adjective

experimental (comparative more experimental, superlative most experimental)

1. Pertaining to or founded on experiment.

   Chemistry is an experimental science.

2. (sciences) Serving to be experimented upon; used in an experiment.
   • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 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 […].

3. Serving as an experiment; serving to experiment.
   • 2012 March-April, Colin Allen, “Do I See What You See?”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 2, 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.

   his experimental band

   an experimental engine

4. Experiential, empirical.

   experimental knowledge

Derived terms

• experimentally

Translations

of or pertaining to an experiment

• Armenian: փորձառական (hy) (pʻorjaṙakan), փորձնական (hy) (pʻorjnakan)
• Bulgarian: опитен (bg) (opiten), експериментален (bg) (eksperimentalen)
• Catalan: experimental (ca)
• Czech: pokusný, experimentální
• Danish: eksperimentel, forsøgsmæssig, forsøg-
• Finnish: kokeellinen (fi)
• Galician: experimental
• German: experimentell
• Greek: πειραματικός (el) (peiramatikós)
• Ido: experimentala (io)
• Italian: sperimentale (it)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: eksperimentell

  Nynorsk: eksperimentell

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• Polish: eksperymentalny (pl)
• Portuguese: experimental (pt)
• Romanian: experimental (ro)
• Russian: эксперимента́льный (ru) (eksperimentálʹnyj), о́пытный (ru) (ópytnyj)
• Spanish: experimental
• Tagalog: tilawin

Noun

experimental (plural experimentals)

1. The subject of an experiment.

See also

• control

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Catalan

Adjective

experimental m or f (masculine and feminine plural experimentals)

1. experimental

Derived terms

• experimentalisme
• experimentalista
• experimentalment

Related terms

• experiment
• experimentar

Further reading

• “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.

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French

Adjective

experimental (feminine experimentale, masculine plural experimentaux, feminine plural experimentales)

1. Misspelling of expérimental.

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Galician

Adjective

experimental m or f (plural experimentais)

1. experimental

Related terms

• experimento

Further reading

• “experimental”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

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Interlingua

Adjective

experimental (not comparable)

1. experimental

Related terms

• experimento

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Portuguese

Adjective

1. experimental (of, pertaining to or being an experiment)

Further reading

• Template:R:Priberam

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Spanish

Adjective

experimental m or f (masculine and feminine plural experimentales)

1. experimental

Related terms

• experimento

Further reading

• “experimental”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014