experiment
verb
- to conduct an experiment
noun
- scientific procedure
- repeatable process in probability theory
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ɪ.mənt/ / /ɛkˈspɛɹ.ɪ.mənt/ / /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/ / /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ɪ.mɛnt/ / /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mɛnt/
noun
Etymology: 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-.
- 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”
- Experience, practical familiarity with something.
“Pilot [...] Vpon his card and compas firmes his eye, The maisters of his long experiment, And to them does the steddy helme apply [...].”
verb
Etymology: 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-.
- To conduct an experiment.
“We're going to experiment on rats.”
“As well as demonstrating operating facilities, full-size car body models are used for experimenting with new types of interior finish, systems of lighting, positioning of route diagrams and advertisements, and the best form of windscreens at doorways, and the height and location of handgrips and handrails.”
- To experience; to feel; to perceive; to detect.
“The Earth, the which may have carried us about perpetually ... without our being ever able to experiment its rest.”
- To test or ascertain by experiment; to try out; to make an experiment on.
“Til they had experimented whiche was trewe, and who knewe most.”
- To try something to observe the results.
“I want to experiment with psychedelics.”