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ex·per·i·men·tal

(ĭk-spĕr′ə-mĕn′tl)

adj.

a. Relating to or based on experiment: experimental procedures; experimental results.

b. Given to experimenting.

2. Of the nature of an experiment; constituting or undergoing a test: an experimental drug.

3. Founded on experience; empirical.

ex·per′i·men′tal·ly adv.

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Adv.

experimentally - in an experimental fashion; "this can be experimentally determined"

by experimentation, through an experiment

Translations

تَجْريبيّـا

eksperimentalt

expérimentalement

kísérletek alapjántapasztalatilag

í tilraunaskyni; meî tilraunum

eksperimentelt forsøksvis

pokusne

deneysel olarak

从实验上试验地

experimentally

[eksˌperɪˈmentəlɪ] ADV [study, test, introduce] → experimentalmente, de forma experimental; [try out] → como experimento
he lifted the cases experimentally to see how heavy they were → hizo el experimento de levantar las maletas para ver lo que pesaban

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

experimentally

[ɪkˌspɛrɪˈmɛnt^əli] adv

(SCIENCE) [study] → expérimentalement; [verify, test] → expérimentalement

[try out] → à titre expérimental
Experimentally, she put it to her mouth → À titre expérimental, elle le porta à sa bouche.

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

experimentally

adv

(= as an experiment) → versuchsweise

(Chem, Phys etc, = by experiment) → experimentell; use → in Versuchen

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

experimentally

[ɪksˌpɛrɪˈmɛntəlɪ] adv → sperimentalmente

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

experiment

(ikˈsperimənt) noun

a test done in order to find out something, eg if an idea is correct. He performs chemical experiments; experiments in traffic control; We shall find out by experiment.

verb

(with on or with) to try to find out something by making tests. He experimented with various medicines to find the safest cure; The doctor experiments on animals.

exˌperiˈmental (-ˈmentl) adjective

of, or used for an experiment. experimental teaching methods.

exˌperiˈmentally adverb

exˌperimenˈtation noun

the practice of making experiments.

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As he had arrived at that age when every man is, experimentally, something of a physician, he was enabled to turn to advantage the little knowledge in the healing art which he had casually picked up; and was sufficiently successful in two or three cases, to convince the simple Indians that report had not exaggerated his medical talents.

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He had nothing to do here, he sometimes said to himself; but there was something beyond the ocean that he was still to do; something that he had left undone experimentally and speculatively, to see if it could content itself to remain undone.

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It has been experimentally proved, that if a plot of ground be sown with several distinct genera of grasses, a greater number of plants and a greater weight of dry herbage can thus be raised.

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Whether this is the case or not might even be decided experimentally. If there were a delicate instrument for recording small movements in the mouth and throat, we might place such an instrument in a person's mouth and then tell him to recite a poem to himself, as far as possible only in imagination.

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Do you not see how, of late, this monster has been creeping into knowledge experimentally. How he has been making use of the zoophagous patient to effect his entry into friend John's home.

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However, when animals were experimentally infected, many of the described Cryptosporidium species were found to be identical.

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The Rochester group focused on the HOXA1 gene after noting that mice whose HOXA1 gene had been experimentally knocked out of commission suffer physical defects similar to those in children exposed to thalidomide early in fetal life.

Gene implicated in development of autism

NIST has advanced the technology both experimentally and theoretically by dealing with elastically anisotropic materials at frequencies approaching 500 MHz and by developing a Greens function formalism that speeds up and simplifies the deduction of elastic properties from surface wave velocity measurements.

NIST MEASURES THE ELASTIC PROPERTIES OF THIN FILMS WITH ULTRASOUND

The study "provides the first field evidence in an experimentally altered situation that indeed musth in older male African elephants does affect and reduce musth in younger males, comments L.E.L.

Really big guys restrain youth violence

Our rigorously standardized study (1) is the first to establish experimentally that birds are highly competent as reservoir hosts for Lyme disease spirochetes.

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Experimentally achieving the new prediction "would be an accomplishment indeed!" he adds.

Device ups hydrogen energy from sunlight

"They were able to take something that had been hinted at and actually show it experimentally," Patel says.