Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who makes experiments; one skilled in experiments; an experimentalist.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who makes experiments; one skilled in experiments.
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- noun A person who
experiments .
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- noun a person who enjoys testing innovative ideas
- noun a research worker who conducts experiments
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Examples
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Haitinger carried over his skills as an experimenter from the Chemistry Institute to Welsbach's industry along with a dexterity with financial issues back to the domain of science.
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To the south of us the United States, led by a great experimenter is working out its own salvation.
Economic Recovery in Great Britain and the United States 1934
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If the word be 'England' the white and black marks on the paper will, if the experimenter is a 'visualiser,' produce at once a picture of some kind accompanied by a vague and half conscious emotional reaction of affection, perhaps, or anxiety, or the remembrance of puzzled thought.
Human Nature in Politics Third Edition Graham Wallas 1895
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If the experimenter is a person with a small amount of the electric fluid in his nature, that is negatively charged, the water being positive will draw down or attract the twig, hence the downward movement.
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Research is disappointing work when the experimenter is the slave of the return and the caprices of a brief season of the year.
Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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The starting point for uncertainty that are analogous to the scienti fi c the experimenter is the hypothesis that the drug is method.
Recently Uploaded Slideshows martins0105 2009
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In Vienna, Pettersson initiated a new era of experimentation and transformed the meaning of "experimenter" within the institute.
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The Mrs. on the other hand ... she's what we call an "experimenter".
unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2003
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A chemist by training, he was invited on as an "experimenter" in the infancy of NASA, working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Houston.
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Even more than Blakey, who tended to stick with the Messengers' hard-bop format, Roach was a restless experimenter who was open to many forms of postmodern experimentation, including team-ups with such free-jazz avatars as Archie Shepp, Anthony Braxton and Cecil Taylor.
The Jazz Scene: Rhythm Kings and the Chairman of the Board Will Friedwald 2012
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