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empirical evidence

empirical evidence noun: information (to support or refute a theory) supported by scientific experimentation or statistical analysis, involving testable observations made using the physical senses or using instruments which extend the senses.

Noun

empirical evidence (uncountable)

  1. Information (to support or refute a theory) supported by scientific experimentation or statistical analysis, involving testable observations made using the physical senses or using instruments which extend the senses.
    • String theory is considered the leading “theory of everything,” but there’s still no empirical evidence for it.2017 December 22, NATALIE WOLCHOVER, “String Theory”, in the Atlantic

Questions about empirical evidence

What does empirical evidence mean?
Empirical evidence means information (to support or refute a theory) supported by scientific experimentation or statistical analysis, involving testable observations made using the physical senses or using instruments which extend the senses.
What part of speech is empirical evidence?
Empirical evidence is a noun.

Words near empirical evidence in the dictionary

  1. empiric
  2. empirical
  3. empirical data
  4. empirical ego
  5. empirical egos
  6. empirical evidence
  7. empirical formula
  8. empirical formulae
  9. empirical formulas
  10. empirical research
  11. empirical researches

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