experiment
Syllables: ex·per·i·mentUK/ɪkˈspɛɹ.ɪ.mənt//ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/
experiment noun: 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.
Noun
experiment (plural experiments)
- 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.
- conduct an experiment
- carry out some experiments
- Experience, practical familiarity with something.
- Pilot [...] Vpon his card and compas firmes his eye,
The maisters of his long experiment,
And to them does the steddy helme apply [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
- Pilot [...] Vpon his card and compas firmes his eye,
Verb
UK/ɪkˈspɛɹ.ɪ.mɛnt/US/ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mɛnt/
experiment (third-person singular simple present experiments, present participle experimenting, simple past and past participle experimented)
- To conduct an experiment.
- We're going to experiment on rats.
- As well as demonstrating operating facilities, full-size car body models are used for experimenting with new types of interior finish, systems of lighting, positioning of route diagrams and advertisements, and the best form of windscreens at doorways, and the height and location of handgrips and...1951 October, “Models Assist Rolling Stock Design”, in Railway Magazine, page 647
- To experience; to feel; to perceive; to detect.
- The Earth, the which may have carried us about perpetually ... without our being ever able to experiment its rest.1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2)
- To test or ascertain by experiment; to try out; to make an experiment on.
- Til they had experimented whiche was trewe, and who knewe most.1481, The Mirrour of the World, William Caxton, 1.5.22
- To try something to observe the results.
- I want to experiment with psychedelics.
experiment meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
experiment in Hindi
- test under controlled conditions
- प्रयोग prayog, तजुर्बा tajurbā, परीक्षा parīkṣā
experiment in Tamil
- ஆய்வு, கள ஆய்வு, செய்முறை, செயல்முறை, சோதனை, பரிசோதனை
experiment in Marathi
- प्रयोग, प्रयोग करणे, प्रयोग करायला
experiment in Urdu
- test under controlled conditions
- تَجْرِبَہ tajriba
More languagesFewer languages
- experiment in Bengali
- পরীক্ষা porikkha
- experiment in Telugu
- ప్రయోగము prayōgamu
- experiment in Malayalam
- പരീക്ഷിക്കുക parīkṣikkuka, പരീക്ഷണം parīkṣaṇaṁ
- experiment in Kannada
- ಆರಯ್ಕೆ, ವೈಜ್ಞಾನಿಕ ಪ್ರಯೋಗ, ಪ್ರಯೋಗಪರೀಕ್ಷೆ ಮಾಡುವುದು, ಪ್ರಾಯೋಗಿಕ ಪರೀಕ್ಷೆ
- experiment in Punjabi
- ਪਰੀਖਿਆ parīkhiā
- experiment in Gujarati
- પ્રયોગ, પ્રયોગ કરવા
- experiment in Pashto
- آزمايش āzmāyeš, تجربه tajreba
- experiment in Tagalog
- tilaw, eksperimento
- experiment in Arabic
- تَجْرِبَة tajriba, اِخْتِبَار iḵtibār, جَرَّبَ jarraba
- experiment in Malay
- uji kaji, eksperimen, menguji kaji
- experiment in Thai
- การทดลอง gaan-tót-lɔɔng, ทดลอง tót-lɔɔng
- experiment in Vietnamese
- thí nghiệm
- experiment in Myanmar
- အစမ်း a.cam:, အစမ်းအသပ် a.cam:a.sap
Examples of experiment in a sentence
- perform a scientific experiment
- From her childhood she had been accustomed to watch, and often to aid, in her uncle's chemical experiments; she was, therefore, not at a loss, as a complete novice in the science would have been.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Laboratory”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […]...
- South Korean officials announced last month that an experiment to create artificial rain did not provide the desired results.2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- I think walking the streets with a map in hand looks dumb; experimenting is much more fun.1978 August 19, David Brill, “California Here I Come!”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 5, page 10:
Forms of experiment
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | experiments |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | experiments |
| present participle | experimenting |
| past participle | experimented |
| past | experimented |
Origin of experiment
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-.
Words formed from experiment
Phrases with experiment
Questions about experiment
- What does experiment mean?
- Experiment means 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.
- What is experiment in Hindi?
- Experiment in Hindi is प्रयोग (prayog), तजुर्बा (tajurbā), परीक्षा (parīkṣā). See Experiment meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use experiment in a sentence?
- perform a scientific experiment
- What part of speech is experiment?
- Experiment can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce experiment?
- Experiment is pronounced /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ɪ.mənt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of experiment?
- The plural of experiment is experiments.
Words near experiment in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: experiment (page history and authors); experiment (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); experiment (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); പരീക്ഷണം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); experiment (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); experiment (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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