experiment

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A test under controlled conditions made to either demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of something previously untried.
Experience, practical familiarity with something.

verb

To conduct an experiment.
To experience; to feel; to perceive; to detect.
To test or ascertain by experiment; to try out; to make an experiment on.
To try something to observe the results.

Pronunciation

/ɪkˈspɛɹ.ɪ.mənt/ /ɛkˈspɛɹ.ɪ.mənt/ /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/ /ɪkˈspɪɹ.ə.mənt/ /ɪkˈspiɹ.ə.mənt/ en-us-experiment.ogg /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ɪ.mɛnt/ /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mɛnt/ /ˈɛksp(ə)rɪmɛɳʈ/ /ɪksp(ə)rɪˈmɛɳʈ/

Word forms

experiment experiments experimenting experimented

Etymology

From Middle English experiment, from Old French esperiment (French expérience), from Latin experimentum (“experience, attempt, experiment”), from experior (“to experience, to attempt”), itself from ex + *perior, in turn from Proto-Indo-European *per-.

Derived words

experimental experimentarian experimentary experimentation experimentee experimentise experimentist experimentize experimentwise interexperiment intraexperiment multiexperiment preexperiment sexperiment subexperiment experimenter self-experiment unexperimented

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