experiment

Noun

1. A test under controlled conditions made to either demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of something previously untried.
2. (obsolete) Experience, practical familiarity with something.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To conduct an experiment.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To experience; to feel; to perceive; to detect.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To test or ascertain by experiment; to try out; to make an experiment on.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɪkˈspɛɹ.ɪ.mənt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: experiment

Cognate with French: expérience

In summary

From Middle English experiment, from Old French esperiment (French expérience), from Latin experimentum (“experience, attempt, experiment”), from experior (“to experience, to attempt”), itself from ex + *perior, in turn from Proto-Indo-European *per-.

Synonyms

test

trial

try

attempt

experimentation

essay

prove

try out

assay

rehearse

experience

practise

experimental

go

rehearsal

endeavour

examination

examine

tryout

effort

trial run

sample

sampler

shot in the dark

specimen

struggle

taste

testing

try on

try-out

verify

whirl

willingness

work

test piece

mental test

trial manufacture

experimentalize

analysis

mental testing

laboratory experiments

the whole shooting match

testing and passing

analyze

try out test out

aspiration

check

endeavor

enjoyment

enterprise

Translations

experimento

esperimento

Experiment

expérience

Versuch

experiment

essai

experiência

sperimentare

experiment

πείραμα

eksperyment

expérimenter

experimento

expérimentation