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单词 experimental
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Definition of experimental in English:

experimental

adjective 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.

    an experimental drug
    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. 1.1 Relating to scientific experiments.
      experimental results
      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.

    experimental music
    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

  • experimentalism

  • 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.
  • experimentalist

  • 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:

experimental

adjectiveɪkˌspɛrəˈmɛn(t)likˌsperəˈmen(t)l
  • 1(of a new invention or product) based on untested ideas or techniques and not yet established or finalized.

    an experimental drug
    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. 1.1 (of a work of art or an artistic technique) involving a radically new and innovative style.
      experimental music
      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
    2. 1.2 Relating to scientific experiments.
      experimental results
      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.
    3. 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).

 
 
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