experimentation

See also: expérimentation

English

Etymology

From Latin ex- + -periri (akin to periculum), "attempt". Morphologically experiment +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪkˌspɛɹ.ɪ.mənˈteɪ.ʃən/, /ɛkˌspɛɹ.ɪ.mənˈteɪ.ʃən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɪkˌspɛɹ.ə.mənˈteɪ.ʃən/, /ɪkˌspɪɹ.ə.mənˈteɪ.ʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• Hyphenation: ex‧per‧i‧ment

Noun

experimentation (countable and uncountable, plural experimentations)

1. The act of experimenting; practice by experiment.
   • 2023 March 21, Zoe Williams, “The orgasm gap – and how to close it: ‘Don’t equate sex and penetration’”, in The Guardian‎^[1], archived from the original on 31 March 2023:

     When we situate climax during intercourse as the bullseye, we gate off the idiosyncrasy and experimentation that are the wellspring of sexual pleasure.

2. (sciences) A set of actions and observations, performed to verify or falsify a hypothesis or to research a causal relationship between phenomena.
   • 2012 January, Robert M. Pringle, “How to Be Manipulative”, in American Scientist‎^[2], volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 3 October 2013, page 31:

     As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.

Derived terms

• animal experimentation
• experimentational
• self-experimentation
• sexperimentation

Translations

act of experimenting

• Catalan: experimentació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 實驗 / 实验 (zh) (shíyàn)

• Danish: eksperimenteren c
• Esperanto: eksperimentado
• Finnish: kokeilu (fi)
• French: expérimentation (fr) f
• Galician: experimentación (gl) f
• German: Experimentieren n
• Italian: sperimentazione (it) f
• Māori: whakamātauranga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: eksperimentering m or f

  Nynorsk: eksperimentering f

• Portuguese: experimentação (pt) f
• Russian: эксперименти́рование (ru) n (eksperimentírovanije)
• Spanish: experimentación f