meaning of experiment
1. Atrial or special observation, made to confirm or disprove something doubtful; esp. , one under conditions determined by the experimenter; an act or operation undertaken in order to discover some unknown principle or effect, or to test, establish, or illustrate some suggest or known truth; practical test; poof.
2. Experience.
3. To make experiment; to operate by test or trial; -- often with on, upon, or in, referring to the subject of an experiment; with, referring to the instrument; and by, referring to the means; as, to experiment upon electricity; he experimented in plowing with ponies, or by steam power.
4. To try; to know, perceive, or prove, by trial experience.
5. the act of conducting a controlled test or investigation
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