experimental

See also: expérimental

English

Etymology

From experiment +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪkspɛɹəˈmɛntəl/, /ɪkˌspɛɹəˈmɛntəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛntəl

Adjective

experimental (comparative more experimental, superlative most experimental)

1. Pertaining to or founded on experiment.

   Chemistry is an experimental science.

2. (sciences) Serving to be experimented upon; used in an experiment.
   • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 541:

     Brown-Séquard, noting that Addison's disease involved the failure of the adrenal (or suprarenal) glands near the kidneys, removed them in experimental animals, and thus proved they were necessary for life […].

3. Serving as an experiment; serving to experiment.

   his experimental band

   an experimental engine

   • 2012 March-April, Colin Allen, “Do I See What You See?”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 26 April 2012, page 168:

     Numerous experimental tests and other observations have been offered in favor of animal mind reading, and although many scientists are skeptical, others assert that humans are not the only species capable of representing what others do and don’t perceive and know.

4. Experiential, empirical.

   experimental knowledge

Derived terms

• experimental aesthetics
• experimental design
• experimentalise
• experimentalism
• experimentalist
• experimentality
• experimentalize
• experimentally
• experimentalness
• experimental probability
• interexperimental
• intraexperimental
• nonexperimental
• postexperimental
• preexperimental
• quasiexperimental
• sexperimental
• unexperimental

 

Translations

of or pertaining to an experiment

• Armenian: փորձառական (hy) (pʻorjaṙakan), փորձնական (hy) (pʻorjnakan)
• Belarusian: эксперымента́льны (ekspjerymjentálʹny)
• Bulgarian: опитен (bg) (opiten), експериментален (bg) (eksperimentalen)
• Catalan: experimental (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 實驗的／实验的 (shíyàn de)

• Czech: pokusný, experimentální
• Danish: eksperimentel, forsøgsmæssig, forsøg-
• Finnish: kokeellinen (fi)
• French: expérimental (fr)
• Galician: experimental (gl)
• Georgian: ექსპერიმენტული (eksṗerimenṭuli)
• German: experimentell (de)
• Greek: πειραματικός (el) (peiramatikós)
• Hungarian: kísérleti (hu)
• Ido: experimentala (io)
• Italian: sperimentale (it)
• Kazakh: істәжірибелік (ıstäjıribelık), эксперименттік (éksperimenttık)
• Korean: 실험적(實驗的) (silheomjeok)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: eksperimentell

  Nynorsk: eksperimentell

• Polish: eksperymentalny (pl), doświadczalny (pl)
• Portuguese: experimental (pt)
• Romanian: experimental (ro)
• Russian: эксперимента́льный (ru) (eksperimentálʹnyj), о́пытный (ru) (ópytnyj)
• Spanish: experimental
• Tagalog: tilawin
• Ukrainian: експеримента́льний (eksperymentálʹnyj), до́слідний (dóslidnyj)

serving to be experimented upon; used in an experiment

• Belarusian: паддо́следны (paddósljedny)
• Russian: подо́пытный (ru) (podópytnyj), испыту́емый (ru) (ispytújemyj, literally “test”)
• Ukrainian: піддо́слідний (piddóslidnyj)

Noun

experimental (plural experimentals)

1. The subject of an experiment.

See also

• control

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əks.pə.ɾi.mənˈtal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [eks.pe.ɾi.menˈtal]

Adjective

experimental m or f (masculine and feminine plural experimentals)

1. experimental

Derived terms

• experimentalisme
• experimentalista
• experimentalment

Related terms

• experiment
• experimentar

Further reading

• “experimental” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “experimental”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “experimental” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “experimental” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Adjective

experimental (feminine experimentale, masculine plural experimentaux, feminine plural experimentales)

1. Obsolete spelling of expérimental.

Galician

Adjective

experimental m or f (plural experimentais)

1. experimental

Related terms

• experimento

Further reading

• “experimental”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

Interlingua

Adjective

experimental (not comparable)

1. experimental

Related terms

• experimento

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /is.pe.ɾi.mẽˈtaw/ [is.pe.ɾi.mẽˈtaʊ̯], /es.pe.ɾi.mẽˈtaw/ [es.pe.ɾi.mẽˈtaʊ̯]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /is.pe.ɾi.mẽˈtaw/ [is.pe.ɾi.mẽˈtaʊ̯], /es.pe.ɾi.mẽˈtaw/ [es.pe.ɾi.mẽˈtaʊ̯]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /iʃ.pe.ɾi.mẽˈtaw/ [iʃ.pe.ɾi.mẽˈtaʊ̯], /eʃ.pe.ɾi.mẽˈtaw/ [eʃ.pe.ɾi.mẽˈtaʊ̯]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /es.pe.ɾi.mẽˈtaw/ [es.pe.ɾi.mẽˈtaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /(i)ʃ.pɨ.ɾi.mẽˈtal/ [(i)ʃ.pɨ.ɾi.mẽˈtaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /(i)ʃ.pɨ.ɾi.mẽˈtal/ [(i)ʃ.pɨ.ɾi.mẽˈtaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /(i)ʃ.pɨ.ɾi.mẽˈta.li/

• Rhymes: -al, -aw
• Hyphenation: ex‧pe‧ri‧men‧tal

Adjective

experimental m or f (plural experimentais)

1. experimental (of, pertaining to or being an experiment)

Further reading

• “experimental”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French expérimental, from Latin experimentalis. By surface analysis, experiment +‎ -al.

Adjective

experimental m or n (feminine singular experimentală, masculine plural experimentali, feminine and neuter plural experimentale)

1. experiential

Declension

Declension of experimental

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	experimental		experimentală	experimentali	experimentale
	definite	experimentalul		experimentala	experimentalii	experimentalele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	experimental		experimentale	experimentali	experimentale
	definite	experimentalului		experimentalei	experimentalilor	experimentalelor

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eɡspeɾimenˈtal/ [eɣ̞s.pe.ɾi.mẽn̪ˈt̪al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: ex‧pe‧ri‧men‧tal

Adjective

experimental m or f (masculine and feminine plural experimentales)

1. experimental

Derived terms

• experimentalismo
• experimentalmente

 

Related terms

• experimento

 

Further reading

• “experimental”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16