Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act, process, or practice of experimenting.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act or practice of making experiments; the process of experimenting.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of experimenting; practice by experiment.
- n. sciences A set of actions and observations, performed to verify or falsify a hypothesis or to research a causal relationship between phenomena.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of experimenting; practice by experiment.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of conducting a controlled test or investigation
- n. the testing of an idea
Etymologies
- From Latin ex- + -periri (akin to periculum), attempt (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Replacing memorization with "experimentation" is her vision.”
The Huffington Post: Marcia G. Yerman: Mae Jemison: Insights from a Barrier-Breaking Astronaut
“Furthermore, experimentation is itself responsible for the succession of artistic accomplishments we think of as "art history" (or literary history) in the first place:”
“In real science (as opposed to "social science"), carefully controlled experimentation is required for valid conclusions.”
“This type of experimentation is not what America voted for: it is time to put this experiment on the shelf.”
“Innovation and experimentation is allowed to continue.”
Prescribing Capitalism, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“And experimentation is always necessary to find out how to make it most efficient for you and your work. —”
Will Microblogging at Work Make You More Productive? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
“And the nature of experimentation is completely antithetical to that premise (wow, was I channeling a scientist with that statement?)”
“Some responsible and educated experimentation is fine.”
“As good experimentation is wont to do, his work occasionally overturns long-standing misconceptions.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘experimentation’.
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Words related to knowledge
Words that relate to learning, knowing, being enlightened...
revelation, eureka, awakening, idea, sapient, astute, canny, intelligent, wise, sharp, shrewd, informed and 467 more...
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Fauvism
Words to describe art of the fauvist movement
wild, beast, color, fauve, fauvism, fauvist, avant garde, floating, violent, outrageous, radical, dynamite and 82 more...
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Words We Dislike!
A list created for TRM, because there are certain words that we just kind of hate.
lover, fetus, smegma, saggy, coulomb, placenta, consumate, moist, sticky, bedroom suit, jiggles, blubber and 52 more...
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nuwerdna's Words
smegma, defenestration, nubile, zeitgeist, stochastic, ergodic, stability, maudlin, recursion, aversion, agent, set and 239 more...
Tweets
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