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experiment

noun
/ɪkˈspɛɹ.ɪ.mənt/UK/ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/US/ɪkˈspɛɹ.ɪ.mɛnt/UK/ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mɛnt/US/ˈɛksp(ə)rɪmɛɳʈ/

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-.

  1. derived from *per-✻
  2. derived from experimentum
  3. derived from esperiment
  4. inherited from experiment

Definitions

  1. A test under controlled conditions made to either demonstrate a known truth, examine the…

    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
    • perform a scientific experiment

  2. 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 [...].

  3. To conduct an experiment.

    • We're going to experiment on rats.
    • Bob is a shameless tourist: Coit Tower, Fisherman's Wharf, Twin Peaks, ad infinitum. I think walking the streets with a map in hand looks dumb; experimenting is much more fun.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. To experience

      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.

    2. To test or ascertain by experiment

      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.

    3. To try something to observe the results.

      • I want to experiment with psychedelics.

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Derived

experimental, experimentarian, experimentary, experimentation, experimentee, experimentise, experimentist, experimentize, experimentwise, interexperiment, intraexperiment, multiexperiment, preexperiment, sexperiment, subexperiment, experimenter, self-experiment, unexperimented

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at experiment. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at experiment. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at experiment

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA