EXPERIMENTATION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of conducting a controlled test or investigation

Synonyms:

experiment; experimentation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("experimentation" is a kind of...):

research project; scientific research (research into questions posed by scientific theories and hypotheses)

Meronyms (parts of "experimentation"):

control; control condition (a standard against which other conditions can be compared in a scientific experiment)

condition; experimental condition (the procedure that is varied in order to estimate a variable's effect by comparison with a control condition)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "experimentation"):

testing (the act of subjecting to experimental test in order to determine how well something works)

trial and error (experimenting until a solution is found)

Michelson-Morley experiment (a celebrated experiment conducted by Albert Michelson and Edward Morley; their failure to detect any influence of the earth's motion on the velocity of light was the starting point for Einstein's theory of relativity)

control experiment (an experiment designed to control for variables affecting the results of another experiment)

Derivation:

experiment (to conduct a test or investigation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The testing of an idea

Example:

not all experimentation is done in laboratories

Synonyms:

experiment; experimentation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("experimentation" is a kind of...):

enquiry; inquiry; research (a search for knowledge)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "experimentation"):

pilot experiment (a preliminary experiment whose outcome can lead to a more extensive experiment)

test; trial; trial run; tryout (trying something to find out about it)