experimental
pertaining to, derived from, or founded on experiment: an experimental science.
of the nature of an experiment; tentative: The new program is still in an experimental stage.
functioning as an experiment or used for experimentation: an experimental airplane.
based on or derived from experience; empirical: experimental knowledge.
something that is experimental.
Origin of experimental
1Other words from experimental
- ex·per·i·men·tal·ly, adverb
- non·ex·per·i·men·tal, adjective
- non·ex·per·i·men·tal·ly, adverb
- post·ex·per·i·men·tal, adjective
- pre·ex·per·i·men·tal, adjective
- pseu·do·ex·per·i·men·tal, adjective
- pseu·do·ex·per·i·men·tal·ly, adverb
- qua·si-ex·per·i·men·tal, adjective
- qua·si-ex·per·i·men·tal·ly, adverb
- sem·i·ex·per·i·men·tal, adjective
- sem·i·ex·per·i·men·tal·ly, adverb
- un·ex·per·i·men·tal, adjective
- un·ex·per·i·men·tal·ly, adverb
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How to use experimental in a sentence
Einstein was doubted for two decades, and cosmologists are still searching for experimental proofs of relativity.
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Vote by mail doesn’t really change much, election-wise | John Timmer | August 27, 2020 | Ars TechnicaThe team searched for experimental issues that could explain the result, but came up empty.
A measurement of positronium’s energy levels confounds scientists | Emily Conover | August 24, 2020 | Science NewsThe country has offered experimental vaccines to officials at state enterprises in China.
Russia says it has a covid vaccine called “Sputnik-V” | Antonio Regalado | August 11, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewIf evolution was a scientist, then centenarians, and the rest of us, are two experimental groups in action.
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The course Jackson taught at VMI, “Natural and experimental Philosophy,” was brutally difficult.
Stonewall Jackson, VMI’s Most Embattled Professor | S. C. Gwynne | November 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI made experimental commercials in the experimental division of a production house, Film X, that made commercials for ad agencies.
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Virgin Galactic’s Flight Path to Disaster: A Clash of High Risk and Hyperbole | Clive Irving | November 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“Rather than the finalized models, we display the experimental work-in-progress ones,” Migarou says.
But owing to another experimental vaccine he received, its impossible to say whether the blood is what saved him.
Several Americans, we are informed, have gallantly offered themselves for experimental purposes.
Neither I nor my companion would have had the courage to have gone in her on her experimental trip.
A Woman's Journey Round the World | Ida PfeifferThe work of this department is experimental and investigative, with a view to the improvement of agriculture in all its branches.
The Philippine Islands | John ForemanHe was the advocate of experimental rather than theoretical systems of medicine, and early adopted the practice of inoculation.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellHe appeared as cool and steady as if he were commanding on an experimental test instead of making his first rescue in the air.
Astounding Stories, May, 1931 | Various
British Dictionary definitions for experimental
/ (ɪkˌspɛrɪˈmɛntəl) /
relating to, based on, or having the nature of experiment: an experimental study
based on or derived from experience; empirical: experimental evidence
tending to experiment: an experimental artist
tentative or provisional: an experimental rule in football
Derived forms of experimental
- experimentally, adverb
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