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experimental

  • adjective
  • /ɪkspɛɹəˈmɛntəl/

Pertaining to or founded on experiment.

Example

“Chemistry is an experimental science.”

Other meanings

  1. Serving to be experimented upon; used in an experiment.

  2. Serving as an experiment; serving to experiment.

    “his experimental band”

Related words

  • experimental aesthetics
  • experimental design
  • experimentalise
  • experimentalism
  • experimentalist
  • experimentality
  • experimentalize
  • experimentalness
  • interexperimental
  • intraexperimental
  • nonexperimental
  • postexperimental

Example sentences

  • “I love experimental languages.”

    Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “experimental” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.