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Experimentation

//ɪkˌspɛɹ.ə.mənˈteɪ.ʃən// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of experimenting; practice by experiment. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    the act of conducting a controlled test or investigation wordnet
  3. 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. 4
    the testing of an idea wordnet

Etymology

From Latin ex- + -periri (akin to periculum), "attempt". Morphologically experiment + -ation.

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