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Definition of experimental in English: experimentaladjective ɛkˌspɛrɪˈmɛnt(ə)lɪkˌspɛrɪˈmɛnt(ə)lɪkˌspɛrəˈmɛn(t)l 1(of a new invention or product) based on untested ideas or techniques and not yet established or finalized. Example sentencesExamples - Recently, researchers combined strontium with ranelic acid to produce the experimental drug.
- It hopes to start clinical trials on its first experimental drug around the middle of next year.
- Meanwhile, the experimental products will be tried in real repair projects.
- He is about to take part in a trial of an experimental American drug in the hope he can buy more time.
- Once in orbit, the experimental craft will wait four days before extending its solar sails, and will use this time to take pictures of Earth.
Synonyms exploratory, investigational, probing, fact-finding, trial and error trial, test, pilot speculative, conjectural, hypothetical, tentative preliminary, probationary, prototype, under review, under the microscope, on the drawing board, empirical, observational untested, untried - 1.1 Relating to scientific experiments.
Example sentencesExamples - We found that, on average, experimental treatment resulted in slightly better disease control than standard therapy did.
- On the following day, the bird received the other food type with the same experimental protocol.
- These findings are supported by both experimental and theoretical results.
- The two groups were collapsed for further analyses, resulting in a larger experimental group.
- This section will depict some of the applications of this knowledge that can be used in experimental protocols.
- Segre correctly emphasizes the importance of experimental tests of theoretical ideas.
- Patients wishing to store their eggs should note that egg freezing and the use of frozen eggs in treatment are experimental techniques.
- DNA was prepared as described in the experimental protocol section.
- The sections below detail the experimental protocol for each of the two treatments.
- To check for robustness of results in this experimental study we used analysis of variance, analysis of covariance, and nested design.
- Her experimental results tell us what infants are actually able to learn.
- The experimental protocol was approved by the Institute's Ethical Committee.
- The ripple phase has been extensively studied by a variety of experimental techniques.
- Various experimental techniques have been used to study the gating mechanism of MscL.
- Our experimental results seem to correlate with these theoretical findings.
- The model was calibrated on the basis of the similar experimental results.
- The structural results are in agreement with experimental literature data.
- Xenotransplantation is currently an experimental technique only.
- The surgical and experimental protocol was technically successful in all nine animals.
- Use of a constant cooling rate is very common in experimental practice.
2(of art or an artistic technique) involving a radically new and innovative style. Example sentencesExamples - There was no avant-garde art any more, there was no more experimental drama any more.
- During the first few weeks of June, electronica and experimental techno in the purist sense of the genre descends on Montreal.
- Stephen is a creature that likes the form of traditional song, but he also loves the ideas of experimental music.
- Why do you think there is such an interest in experimental music now, with more and more bands taking greater musical risks?
- Instead, he draws from his background in experimental jazz and spoken word.
- I also recommend the disc for those who love avant-garde, experimental filmmaking.
- Vancouver is known for its small, young, independent, and experimental dance community.
- We formed an experimental music group in 1980 called the East End Butchers.
- The roots of this approach might be traced to his introduction to experimental film-making.
- Breaking with the traditional canon of styles in the arts, pop art is as experimental as the expressionist or primitive arts.
- He claims that he can find no evidence for pure clairvoyance in any of the spontaneous or experimental literature.
- Using the natural buoyancy of the water, the experimental dance is both effortless and enormously fluid.
- It blends edgy, experimental programming with traditional arts offerings.
- Living downstairs is Brian, an abstract artist with some truly disturbing experimental techniques.
- Both shows entail a plethora of experimental dance, theater and music performances.
- The group has been described as the most radical and experimental art movement of the sixties.
- The kinds of literary work that have been described as postmodernist include the Theatre of the Absurd and some experimental poetry.
- What happened to experimental filmmaking in Australia after that?
- The spirit of experimental music lives on in Sao Paulo.
- This argument links his views to a well established experimental literature.
Synonyms innovative, innovatory, new, original, inventive, radical, avant-garde, alternative, fringe unfamiliar, unorthodox, unconventional, eccentric, offbeat, off-centre, bohemian North American left-field informal go-ahead, way-out 3archaic Based on experience as opposed to authority or conjecture. an experimental knowledge of God Example sentencesExamples - Pauli based his investigation on a profound analysis of the experimental and theoretical knowledge in atomic physics at the time.
- What converts it from speculation to knowledge is confirmation by experimental evidence.
Derivatives noun ɪkˌspɛrɪˈmɛnt(ə)lɪz(ə)mɛkˌspɛrɪˈmɛnt(ə)lɪz(ə)mɪkˌspɛrəˈmɛn(t)əˌlɪzəm Especially discomfiting in such a dichotomized view of poetry is the assumption that novelty and innovation equate not only with experimentalism but also with liberal politics. Example sentencesExamples - He represents the end of the 60s spirit of experimentalism.
- The self-released, self-financed record veered into noisy experimentalism, with the musician pushing country's boundaries and receiving critical acclaim in the process.
- Most importantly, it hammers home the importance of experimentalism: that for this relatively new form of music to progress, artists will have to think as creatively now as they did 70 years ago.
- We are trying to bring an open-ended experimentalism into the architecture of song, and vice versa.
noun ɛkˌspɛrɪˈmɛnt(ə)lɪstɪkspɛrɪˈmɛnt(ə)lɪstɪkˌspɛrəˈmɛn(t)ələst The experimentalists would discover this kind of particle very easily. Example sentencesExamples - By the mid '70s, most of these regional experimentalists had relocated to New York and were dominating the avant-garde jazz scene.
- He met experimentalists and theorists every day, attended talks and conferences, travelled extensively to conferences inside America as well as travelling to Poland.
- Theorists will look for specific models of inflation, while experimentalists will look for new ways to test it.
- I realized that I was better suited to be a theorist than an experimentalist.
Origin Late 15th century (in the sense 'having personal experience', also 'experienced, observed'): from medieval Latin experimentalis, from Latin experimentum (see experiment). Definition of experimental in US English: experimentaladjectiveɪkˌspɛrəˈmɛn(t)likˌsperəˈmen(t)l 1(of a new invention or product) based on untested ideas or techniques and not yet established or finalized. Example sentencesExamples - Once in orbit, the experimental craft will wait four days before extending its solar sails, and will use this time to take pictures of Earth.
- Recently, researchers combined strontium with ranelic acid to produce the experimental drug.
- He is about to take part in a trial of an experimental American drug in the hope he can buy more time.
- It hopes to start clinical trials on its first experimental drug around the middle of next year.
- Meanwhile, the experimental products will be tried in real repair projects.
Synonyms exploratory, investigational, probing, fact-finding, trial and error - 1.1 (of a work of art or an artistic technique) involving a radically new and innovative style.
Example sentencesExamples - Both shows entail a plethora of experimental dance, theater and music performances.
- Living downstairs is Brian, an abstract artist with some truly disturbing experimental techniques.
- We formed an experimental music group in 1980 called the East End Butchers.
- During the first few weeks of June, electronica and experimental techno in the purist sense of the genre descends on Montreal.
- There was no avant-garde art any more, there was no more experimental drama any more.
- Breaking with the traditional canon of styles in the arts, pop art is as experimental as the expressionist or primitive arts.
- Using the natural buoyancy of the water, the experimental dance is both effortless and enormously fluid.
- This argument links his views to a well established experimental literature.
- The spirit of experimental music lives on in Sao Paulo.
- It blends edgy, experimental programming with traditional arts offerings.
- Stephen is a creature that likes the form of traditional song, but he also loves the ideas of experimental music.
- Instead, he draws from his background in experimental jazz and spoken word.
- He claims that he can find no evidence for pure clairvoyance in any of the spontaneous or experimental literature.
- I also recommend the disc for those who love avant-garde, experimental filmmaking.
- What happened to experimental filmmaking in Australia after that?
- Vancouver is known for its small, young, independent, and experimental dance community.
- The roots of this approach might be traced to his introduction to experimental film-making.
- The group has been described as the most radical and experimental art movement of the sixties.
- The kinds of literary work that have been described as postmodernist include the Theatre of the Absurd and some experimental poetry.
- Why do you think there is such an interest in experimental music now, with more and more bands taking greater musical risks?
Synonyms innovative, innovatory, new, original, inventive, radical, avant-garde, alternative, fringe - 1.2 Relating to scientific experiments.
Example sentencesExamples - DNA was prepared as described in the experimental protocol section.
- This section will depict some of the applications of this knowledge that can be used in experimental protocols.
- Our experimental results seem to correlate with these theoretical findings.
- The two groups were collapsed for further analyses, resulting in a larger experimental group.
- The ripple phase has been extensively studied by a variety of experimental techniques.
- The sections below detail the experimental protocol for each of the two treatments.
- These findings are supported by both experimental and theoretical results.
- We found that, on average, experimental treatment resulted in slightly better disease control than standard therapy did.
- To check for robustness of results in this experimental study we used analysis of variance, analysis of covariance, and nested design.
- The structural results are in agreement with experimental literature data.
- Various experimental techniques have been used to study the gating mechanism of MscL.
- Use of a constant cooling rate is very common in experimental practice.
- Patients wishing to store their eggs should note that egg freezing and the use of frozen eggs in treatment are experimental techniques.
- The model was calibrated on the basis of the similar experimental results.
- The surgical and experimental protocol was technically successful in all nine animals.
- On the following day, the bird received the other food type with the same experimental protocol.
- The experimental protocol was approved by the Institute's Ethical Committee.
- Her experimental results tell us what infants are actually able to learn.
- Xenotransplantation is currently an experimental technique only.
- Segre correctly emphasizes the importance of experimental tests of theoretical ideas.
- 1.3archaic Based on experience as opposed to authority or conjecture.
an experimental knowledge of God Example sentencesExamples - What converts it from speculation to knowledge is confirmation by experimental evidence.
- Pauli based his investigation on a profound analysis of the experimental and theoretical knowledge in atomic physics at the time.
Origin Late 15th century (in the sense ‘having personal experience’, also ‘experienced, observed’): from medieval Latin experimentalis, from Latin experimentum (see experiment). |