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experimentum crucis

experimentum crucis noun: a "crucial experiment"; a conclusive test to decide between different hypotheses.

Noun

experimentum crucis (uncountable)

  1. A "crucial experiment"; a conclusive test to decide between different hypotheses.
    • What remained for me but to prove, by trial, that what might be perilous to other travellers was safe to me? The “experimentum crucis” was a visit to Al-Híjaz, at once the most difficult and the most dangerous point by which a European can enter...1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Dover, published 1964, page 2

Origin of experimentum crucis

Modern Latin. From Latin experimentum crucis, "experiment of the cross".

Questions about experimentum crucis

What does experimentum crucis mean?
Experimentum crucis means a "crucial experiment"; a conclusive test to decide between different hypotheses.
What part of speech is experimentum crucis?
Experimentum crucis is a noun.

Words near experimentum crucis in the dictionary

  1. experimentized
  2. experimentizes
  3. experimentizing
  4. experimently
  5. experiments
  6. experimentum crucis
  7. experimentwise
  8. expersate
  9. expert
  10. expert system
  11. expert systems

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