experimental
pronunciation
How to pronounce experimental in British English:
UK [ɪkˌsperɪˈmentl]
How to pronounce experimental in American English:
US [ɪkˌsperɪˈmentl]
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- Adjective:
- relating to or based on experiment
- relying on observation or experiment
- of the nature of or undergoing an experiment
Word Origin
- experimental (adj.)
- mid 15c., "having experience," from experiment (n.) + -al (1). Meaning "based on experiment" is from 1560s. Meaning "for the sake of experiment" is from 1792.
Example
- 1. Search site is an experimental firefox add-on which makes site-specific searches very easy .
- 2. He is exploring other experimental avenues : next term philosophy dons will teach business ethics .
- 3. After an experimental explosion , one of the experts exploded the gunpowder , an explosive .
- 4. With cloud computing in the enterprise we tend to think of it as being conceptual and experimental .
- 5. Researchers have already built experimental displays that combine quantum dots with the underpinnings of oled displays .