experiment

Definizione monolingua

experiment

experiment (third-person singular simple present experiments, present participle experimenting, simple past and past participle experimented)

1. (intransitive) To conduct an experiment.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To experience; to feel; to perceive; to detect.
   • 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileos Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):

     The Earth, the which may have carried us about perpetually ... without our being ever able to experiment its rest.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To test or ascertain by experiment; to try out; to make an experiment on.
   • 1481 William Caxton, The Mirrour of the World 1.5.22:

     Til they had experimented whiche was trewe, and who knewe most.

experiment (plural experiments)

1. A test under controlled conditions made to either demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy of something previously untried.
2. (obsolete) Experience, practical familiarity with something.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:

     Pilot [...] Vpon his card and compas firmes his eye, / The maisters of his long experiment, / And to them does the steddy helme apply [...].

Definizione dizionario experiment

	esperimento
	A test under controlled conditions that is made to demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy of something previously untried. (Source: MGH)

	esperimentare
	To conduct an experiment.

empirico

esperienza

prova

sperimentare

Altri significati:

(obsolete) Experience, practical familiarity with something.

(intransitive) To conduct an experiment.

test under controlled conditions

A test under controlled conditions made to either demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy of something previously untried.

(transitive, obsolete) To test or ascertain by experiment; to try out; to make an experiment on.

(transitive, obsolete) To experience; to feel; to perceive; to detect.

to conduct an experiment