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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A control-experiment; an experiment devised to confirm the results of other experiments: for example, an experiment made under normal conditions, the result of which enables the experimenter to estimate the effect, in a parallel series of experiments, of a determinate variation of conditions.
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Examples
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An electrical check-experiment with the chair calorimeter was made on January 4, 1909, and continued 6 hours.
Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man Francis Gano Benedict 1913
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