Experimentation
//ɪkˌspɛɹ.ə.mənˈteɪ.ʃən// noun
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The act of experimenting; practice by experiment. countable, uncountable
- 2 the act of conducting a controlled test or investigation wordnet
- 3 A set of actions and observations, performed to verify or falsify a hypothesis or to research a causal relationship between phenomena. countable, uncountable
"As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds."
- 4 the testing of an idea wordnet
Example
More examples"Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science."
Etymology
From Latin ex- + -periri (akin to periculum), "attempt". Morphologically experiment + -ation.
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