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experimentee

experimentee noun: someone who is subjected to an experiment.

Noun

experimentee (plural experimentees)

  1. Someone who is subjected to an experiment.
    • Thus, in the first 100 experiments made with the second movement greater, it was judged greater seventy-six times, less twenty-one times, and the experimentee was unable to come to a decision three times.1892, George Stuart Fullerton, On the Perception of Small Differences
    • The experimentees learn their results at the end of the two-hour show, and while the discovery of a white man or an Ashkenazi Jew in the family tree might seem unsurprising to the viewer, it knocks some of the test subjects for a loop.2009 August 29, Mike Hale, “The Many Genes of Queens, and How They Ended Up There”, in New York Times

Forms of experimentee

pluralexperimentees

Origin of experimentee

From experiment + -ee.

Questions about experimentee

What does experimentee mean?
Experimentee means someone who is subjected to an experiment.
What part of speech is experimentee?
Experimentee is a noun.
What is the plural of experimentee?
The plural of experimentee is experimentees.

Words near experimentee in the dictionary

  1. experimentations
  2. experimentative
  3. experimentator
  4. experimentators
  5. experimented
  6. experimentee
  7. experimentees
  8. experimenter
  9. experimenters
  10. experimenting
  11. experimentings

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