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Meaning experiment meaning

What does experiment mean?
Definitions in simple English

experiment Noun

— A test that is done to prove something, to see if a guess is valid, or to do something that has not been tried before. The experiment will prove that water boils at 100°C.

experiment Verb

— To do an experiment.

experiment

— noun the act of conducting a controlled test or investigation — verb to conduct a test or investigation We are experimenting with the new drug in order to fight this disease — noun (= experimentation) the testing of an idea it was an experiment in living not all experimentation is done in laboratories — noun a venture at something new or different as an experiment he decided to grow a beard — verb try something new, as in order to gain experience Students experiment sexually The composer experimented with a new style

Synonyms experiment synonyms

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Conjugation experiment conjugation

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experiment · verb

Examples experiment examples

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Simple sentences

The experiment failed.
The experiment succeeded.
Eventually the experiment succeeded.
I like to experiment.
This experiment was unsuccessful.
Our experiment went wrong last week.
Our experiment has revealed that his report was unreliable.
Prove it by experiment.
For that experiment they need a complete vacuum.
The experiment confirmed his theory.
You can't be too careful when doing this experiment.
We used the following procedures in this experiment.
It is of great significance in this experiment to accelerate the particle M in the horizontal direction.
You can't afford to be careless in this experiment.
One American scientist, William Keeton, used a very interesting experiment to solve this mystery.
Our experiment has revealed that his report was inaccurate.
It is unclear in Patterson's experiment whether the output objects fully correspond to the designed models.
The experiment was made on a hundred unmarried males.
That experiment was a failure.
The experiment failed because of some minor faults.
I got hurt during an experiment, and the injury was pretty serious.

Movie subtitles

We did the experiment, we collected some pieces.
After each failed experiment, Los went on dreaming.
For the attention of the spectator: This film presents an experiment in the cinematic transmission of visible phenomena.
My experiment is almost completed.
I've got to experiment further.
What will happen to the records of my experiment?
It'll be an interesting experiment.
It's good to go away when you're finishing a difficult experiment.
What kind of experiment is it, Father?
I'm carrying out a difficult experiment.
I found that experiment in an old German book just by chance.
So I packed up and went to a village for secrecy and quiet, to finish the experiment and complete the antidote, the way back to visible man again.
Just a scientific experiment at first.
Leave it to me and Kemp. We shall work day and night to undo this experiment.
On paper, their mission was to transport supplies to a microgravity experiment station orbiting at an altitude of 400 kilometers.
Meanwhile, back at the inn, the mysterious stranger is trying desperately to find a solution to an aspect of his experiment, one of many, that we're not too clear about as yet.
Griffin's vocal delivery reflects his momentary change back to what was surely his personality prior to the nefarious experiment.
I came here for quiet and secrecy. I'm carrying out a difficult experiment.
We shall work day and night to undo this experiment.
I THINK WE'LL DO AN EXPERIMENT OF OUR OWN.
Vincent: SO, HOW WAS OUR LITTLE EXPERIMENT?
It was an experiment.
But for being an experiment, the sky is the limit.
Am I? I thought tonight I had reached the end of my experiment.
Anyhow, don't experiment here.
I can't allow you to experiment with.
After all, we doctors can't experiment on human beings.
I suppose your silly experiment couldn't wait. could it?
Too bad I can't finish this experiment. I'm onto something.
I need these whiskers for my experiment.
Yes, the noble experiment.
On your experiment.
My father's head of the experiment station here.

News and current affairs

Building and solidifying these institutions, however, takes time. Using an initial period of growth to experiment and innovate on these fronts can pay high dividends later on.
WARSAW - The eurozone is often considered an experiment - a monetary union without political unification.
Meanwhile, in Hong Kong, Singapore, and China, there are calls for extending university programs so that students can obtain a broad, liberal education, in the hope that graduates will be more inclined to experiment and innovate.
Yet French and German statesmen summoned the vision and the will to launch a bold experiment, one that has evolved into a single economy of 500 million people.
Nim was born in 1973, in a primate research facility in Oklahoma, and was taken from his mother when he was only ten days old, to be used in a sign-language experiment.
Nim suffered various other vicissitudes - and narrowly escaped being infected with hepatitis as part of a medical experiment - until he was eventually released to an animal sanctuary, where he died in 2000.
The euro was always a big gamble, a grand experiment.
Does my case, and others like it, portend the end of yet another short-lived experiment with democracy in Indonesia?
This financial crisis will probably mark the end of the Cavallo experiment, which was promoted around the world.
The outcome of any such experiment is impossible to foresee, because other countries' experience can never be a perfect guide to a new system - the situation is never exactly the same in a different environment.
The progressive social experiment has gone so severely off-track that the state cannot even dependably provide essential services, from courts to education, for the most needy.
Critics of experimental economics worry that subjects bring to experimental situations modes of thought determined outside of the experiment, and thus that the experiments are not as clean and the inferences not as clear cut as in the physical sciences.
In the event, the differential system was a short-lived experiment.
But the outcome of this grand experiment, which pits an authoritarian government dedicated to controlling politics against an information technology inherently resistant to such controls, is far from certain.
Using an initial period of growth to experiment and innovate on these fronts can pay high dividends later on.
The US experiment in federalized finance was not immediately successful.
Not only has this untested policy experiment failed to deliver an acceptable economic recovery; it has also heightened the risk of another crisis.
Maybe the most important point - and a key difference with the Clintons - is that this experiment begins in an Argentina that suffers from great institutional vulnerability.
In other words, a China-centric Asian supply chain has made a big bet on the grand European experiment - a bet that now appears to be backfiring.
Often, they are open to new ideas - and freer than large countries to experiment.
Indeed, the human-rights experiment that Tony Blair's Labour government brought to Britain has failed.
All the candidates remain handpicked by the leadership, even if the least popular figures can be removed. In the event, the differential system was a short-lived experiment.
In desperation, village leaders in Anhui province initiated an experiment that returned land to peasants-a de facto privatization that violated official policy.
We still do not know whether that is true, or how well the experiment will work.
Acknowledging the need to experiment and design new forms of economic organization must not mean abandoning fairness and compassion.
Instead of relying on fads emanating from abroad, we need to experiment and look for the unique solutions that will allow us to circumvent ingrained social structures that inhibit growth.
This achievement contrasts starkly with all the critical voices that warned against the experiment of European Monetary Union and even predicted its early failure.
Yet big and small alike must realize that their current disposition implies the slow suffocation of Europe's most exciting and successful experiment in bringing peace and prosperity to the old continent.

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