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experimenting

experimenting is the present participle and gerund of experiment.

Meaning of experiment

Verb

experiment (third-person singular simple present experiments, present participle experimenting, simple past and past participle experimented)

  1. (intransitive) To conduct an experiment.
    • We're going to experiment on rats.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) 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)
  3. (obsolete, transitive) 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
  4. (intransitive, often) To try something to observe the results.
    • I want to experiment with psychedelics.

See all 6 meanings of experiment

Noun

experimenting (plural experimentings)

  1. experimentation
    • Still others were not especially interested in these experimentings with group exercises and rituals, but saw no problem with Ronnie and others engaging in that work.2001, Steven Gans, Leon Redler, Just Listening: Ethics and Therapy, page 271

Forms of experimenting

pluralexperimentings

Questions about experimenting

What does experimenting mean?
Experimenting means experimentation.
What is experimenting the present participle and gerund of?
Experimenting is the present participle and gerund of experiment.
What part of speech is experimenting?
Experimenting is a noun.
What is the plural of experimenting?
The plural of experimenting is experimentings.

Words near experimenting in the dictionary

  1. experimented
  2. experimentee
  3. experimentees
  4. experimenter
  5. experimenters
  6. experimenting
  7. experimentings
  8. experimentise
  9. experimentised
  10. experimentising
  11. experimentist

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