experimental
adjEtymology
From experiment + -al.
- derived from *per-✻
- derived from experimentum
- derived from esperiment
- inherited from experiment
Definitions
Pertaining to or founded on experiment.
- Chemistry is an experimental science.
Serving to be experimented upon
Serving to be experimented upon; used in an experiment.
- 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 […].
Serving as an experiment
Serving as an experiment; serving to experiment.
- his experimental band
- an experimental engine
- In its sixty-year history here, some 4,170 engines of the 4-6-0 type have been constructed. This is the vast sequel of that bold experimental step of the Highland Railway in 1894.
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Experiential, empirical.
- experimental knowledge
The subject of an experiment.
The neighborhood
Derived
experimental aesthetics, experimental design, experimentalise, experimentalism, experimentalist, experimentality, experimentalize, experimentally, experimentalness, experimental probability, interexperimental, intraexperimental, nonexperimental, postexperimental, preexperimental, quasiexperimental, self-experimental, sexperimental, unexperimental
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at experimental. 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.
A definitional loop anchored at experimental. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
6 hops · closes at experimental
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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