Experimental
/ɪkspɛɹəˈmɛntəl/ adj, noun
adj, noun ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The subject of an experiment.
Adjective
- 1 Pertaining to or founded on experiment.
"Chemistry is an experimental science."
- 2 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 […]."
- 3 Serving as an experiment; serving to experiment.
"his experimental band"
- 4 Experiential, empirical.
"experimental knowledge"
Adjective
- 1 relying on observation or experiment wordnet
- 2 of the nature of or undergoing an experiment wordnet
- 3 relating to or based on experiment wordnet
Synonyms
All synonymsExample
More examples"We deal here with Emmet's 'dyad' style first presented in his experimental works in the late sixties."
Etymology
From experiment + -al.