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empirically

empirically adverb: based on experience as opposed to theoretical knowledge.

Adverb

empirically (comparative more empirically, superlative most empirically)

  1. Based on experience as opposed to theoretical knowledge.
    • I have no idea why this works, but empirically, it works.
  2. Based on data and evidence gathered in the real world.
    • We need to test this idea empirically instead of just speculating about it.

Examples of empirically in a sentence

  • It has been found empirically that eta expansion usually suffices for dealing with the value restriction.
  • And hence colour, which was initially an ad hoc concept, later turned out to be an empirically confirmed reality of hadrons.
  • We derive our embarrassingly parallel VI algorithm, analyze our method theoretically, and demonstrate our method empirically on a few nonconjugate models.

All 13 example sentences with empirically

Antonyms of empirically

Forms of empirically

comparativemore empirically
superlativemost empirically

Origin of empirically

From empirical + -ly.

Words formed from empirically

Questions about empirically

What does empirically mean?
Empirically means based on experience as opposed to theoretical knowledge.
What part of speech is empirically?
Empirically is an adverb.

Words near empirically in the dictionary

  1. empiricalizations
  2. empiricalize
  3. empiricalized
  4. empiricalizes
  5. empiricalizing
  6. empirically
  7. empiricalness
  8. empiricals
  9. empiricism
  10. empiricisms
  11. empiricist

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