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experimental (iou)



experimental adjective. L15.
[medieval Latin experimentalis, from Latin experimentum EXPERIMENT noun: see -AL1.]
Of a person: having actual or personal experience of something. Of a thing: coming within the range of experience; observed. L15-M18.
Based on experience as opp. to authority or conjecture; founded on experience only, empirical. Formerly also, discovered by experience. E16.
E. M. Goulburn To bring myself and others to an experimental knowledge of God.
Based on, derived from, or making use of experiment; esp. designating (a specialist in) a branch of knowledge based on experiment. L16.
experimental chemist, experimental physics, experimental psychologist, experimental psychology, etc.
B. Lovell Astronomical investigations are almost completely observational and not experimental.
Of or pertaining to experiments; used in or for experiments. L18.
J. N. Lockyer The spectrum of potassium..varies very much under different experimental conditions.
Of the nature of an experiment; tentative; adopted or begun without assurance of success; spec. designating an educational establishment, artistic endeavour, etc., run or developed on non-traditional lines. E19.
James Mill A first and experimental attempt. R. L. Stevenson Wine in California is still in the experimental stage. M. Gordon Headmaster of an experimental school.
experimentalism noun (a) (adherence to) the principles of the empirical approach in philosophy or science; (b) rare experimental research, experimentation: M19.
experimentalist noun (a) a scientist concerned with experimental research; a skilled experimenter; (b) a person given to experimenting with new methods of procedure etc.: M18.
experimentalize verb intrans. perform or try experiments (on) E19.
experimentally adverb (a) by or through experience; (b) by means of experiment: L16.