experimentation

See also: expérimentation

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪkˌspɛɹ.ɪ.mənˈteɪ.ʃən/, /ɛkˌspɛɹ.ɪ.mənˈteɪ.ʃən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɪkˌspɛɹ.ə.mənˈteɪ.ʃən/, /ɪkˌspɪɹ.ə.mənˈteɪ.ʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• Hyphenation: ex‧per‧i‧ment

Noun

experimentation (countable and uncountable, plural experimentations)

1. The act of experimenting; practice by experiment.
2. (sciences) A set of actions and observations, performed to verify or falsify a hypothesis or to research a causal relationship between phenomena.
   • 2012 January, Robert M. Pringle, “How to Be Manipulative”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 3 October 2013, page 31:

     As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.

Derived terms

• animal experimentation
• sexperimentation

 

Translations

act of experimenting

• Catalan: experimentació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 實驗／实验 (zh) (shíyàn)

• Danish: eksperimenteren c
• Esperanto: eksperimentado
• Finnish: kokeilu (fi)
• French: expérimentation (fr) f
• Galician: experimentación (gl) f
• German: Experimentieren n
• Maori: whakamātauranga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: eksperimentering m or f

  Nynorsk: eksperimentering f

• Russian: эксперименти́рование (ru) n (eksperimentírovanije)
• Spanish: experimentación f