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experimental
[ ik-sper-uh-men-tl ]
adjective
- 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.
noun
- something that is experimental.
experimental
/ ɪkˌspɛrɪˈmɛntəl /
adjective
- 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
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Derived Forms
- exˌperiˈmentally, adverb
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Other Words From
- ex·peri·mental·ly adverb
- nonex·peri·mental adjective
- nonex·peri·mental·ly adverb
- postex·peri·mental adjective
- preex·peri·mental adjective
- pseudo·ex·peri·mental adjective
- pseudo·ex·peri·mental·ly adverb
- quasi-ex·peri·mental adjective
- quasi-ex·peri·mental·ly adverb
- semi·ex·peri·mental adjective
- semi·ex·peri·mental·ly adverb
- unex·peri·mental adjective
- unex·peri·mental·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of experimental1
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Example Sentences
Einstein was doubted for two decades, and cosmologists are still searching for experimental proofs of relativity.
Instead, Utah and Washington both had different counties adopt the system at different times, providing a shifting set of experimental and control conditions.
The team searched for experimental issues that could explain the result, but came up empty.
The country has offered experimental vaccines to officials at state enterprises in China.
If evolution was a scientist, then centenarians, and the rest of us, are two experimental groups in action.
The course Jackson taught at VMI, “Natural and Experimental Philosophy,” was brutally difficult.
I made experimental commercials in the experimental division of a production house, Film X, that made commercials for ad agencies.
All the Virgin Galactic test flying was done under a special experimental permit issued by the Federal Aviation Administration.
“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.
The work of this department is experimental and investigative, with a view to the improvement of agriculture in all its branches.
He was the advocate of experimental rather than theoretical systems of medicine, and early adopted the practice of inoculation.
He appeared as cool and steady as if he were commanding on an experimental test instead of making his first rescue in the air.
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