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trial and error usually uncountable , plural trials and errors
The process of finding a solution to a problem by trying many possible solutions and learning from mistakes until success is attained.
Navigating by trial and error may get you there eventually, but using a map is faster.
2018 October 9, A. A. Dowd, “The Star and Director of La La Land First Man The A.V. Club [1] the original on 16 June 2020 :Trial and error was a big part of the process: "We need to fail down here so we don't fail up there," [Neil] Armstrong insists, though even some of the mistakes and malfunctions at ground level cause devastating casualties. solution by learning from mistakes
Arabic: التَّجْرِبَة وَالْخَطَأ ( at-tajriba(t) wālḵaṭaʔ )
Catalan: prova i error assaig i error tempteig (ca) m tanteig (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 嘗試錯誤 / 尝试错误 ( chángshì cuòwù )
Dutch: trial-and-error (nl) m
Finnish: yritys ja erehdys
French: tâtonnement (fr)
German: trial and error (de) , Versuch und Irrtum
Hebrew: נִסּוּי וּטְעִיָּה (he) ( nisúy ute'iyá )
Hungarian: próbálgatás (hu) , próbálkozás (hu) , kísérletezés (hu)
Italian: prove ed errori tentativi ed errori
Japanese: 試行錯誤 (ja) ( しこうさくご, shikō sakugo )
Korean: 시행착오(試行錯誤) (ko) ( sihaengchago )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: prøving og feiling
Nynorsk: prøving og feiling
Persian: آزمون و خطا (fa) ( âzmun-o-xatâ ) , سعی و خطا ( sa'y-o-xatâ )
Polish: metoda prób i błędów f
Portuguese: tentativa e erro
Russian: ме́тод проб и оши́бок m ( métod prob i ošíbok ) , ме́тод ты́ка (ru) ( métod týka ) ( coll. )
Spanish: ensayo y error tanteo (es) m experimentación f probatura y error prueba y error f
Tagalog: pagsubok (tl) at (tl) pagkakamali babaso
Thai: ลองผิดลองถูก ( lɔɔng-pìt lɔɔng-tùuk )
Turkish: deneme yanılma
Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
Vietnamese: phương pháp thử và sai
