| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Experiment.[Websters]
2. To be heated. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have trialed, proofed, tested, tried or auditioned. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To have tasted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have hazarded, ventured, chanced, gambled or adventured. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To have risked. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have shied. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To have evidenced, demonstrated or witnessed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have probed or checked. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To have signed or marked.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb experiment.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (experiment) | 1. To conduct a test or investigation; "We are experimenting with the new drug in order to fight this disease".[Wordnet]. 2. Try something new, as in order to gain experience; "Students experiment sexually"; "The composer experimented with a new style".[Wordnet]. 3. To make experiment; to operate by test or trial; -- often with on, upon, or in, referring to the subject of an experiment; with, referring to the instrument; and by, referring to the means; as, to experiment upon electricity; he experimented in plowing with ponies, or by steam power.[Websters]. 4. To try; to know, perceive, or prove, by trial experience.[Websters]. 5. Base verb from the following inflections: experimenting, experimented, experiments, experimenter, experimenters, experimentingly and experimentedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being heated.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "EXPERIMENTED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1469. (references) |
Specialty Definition: experiment
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] A trial; an act or operation designed to discover some unknown truth, principle or effect, or to establish it when discovered. Experiments in chimistry disclose the qualities of natural bodies. A series of experiments proves the uniformity of the laws of matter. It is not always safe to trust to a single experiment. It is not expedient to try many experiments in legislation. A political experiment cannot be made in a laboratory, nor determined in a few hours.. | 2: [Verb] To make trial; to make an experiment; to operate on a body in such a manner as to discover some unknown fact, or to establish it when known. Philosophers experiment on natural bodies for the discovery of their qualities and combinations.. | 3: [Verb] To try; to search by trial.. | 4: [Verb] To experience. [Not used.]. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Aerospace | 1: A set of controlled procedures designed to test an idea or hypothesis. For example, a flight simulation engineer will design an experiment to test whether or not a pilot can control an airplane with a new wing design. (references) | 2: A test of a scientific idea under controlled conditions. (references) | 3: A test or tests that are used to find out or prove something or to see whether a theory is correct. (references) | 4: The system of hardware, software, and procedures for performance of a scientific or applications investigation undertaken to: 1. Discover unknown phenomena; 2. Establish the basis of known laws; and 3. Evaluate applications processes and/or equipment. (references) |
| Geography | 1: Experiment is geographically located in Guyana. Its features include an estate(s) (a large commercialized agricultural landholding with associated buildings and other facilities), and a sugar plantation (an estate that specializes in growing sugar cane). Its geographic coordinates are 6.066667 degrees North latitude and 57.583333 degrees West longitude. (references) | 2: Experiment is geographically located in Micronesia. Its features include an island (a tract of land, smaller than a continent, surrounded by water at high water). Its geographic coordinates are 5.315278 degrees North latitude and 162.980556 degrees East longitude. (references) | 3: Experiment is geographically located in South Africa. Its features include a railroad siding (a short track parallel to and joining the main track). Its geographic coordinates are 25.583333 degrees South latitude and 27.766667 degrees East longitude. (references) |
| Geology | Noun: A procedure done in a controlled environment for the purpose of gathering observations, data, or facts, demonstrating known facts or theories, or testing hypotheses or theories. Verb: To carry out such a procedure. (references) | ||
| Medicine | A trial, test, procedure, or special observation to discover some unknown effect of principle to confirm or disprove a hypothesis or theory, or to illustrate a known truth. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Statistics | Any process or study which results in the collection of data, the outcome of which is unknown. In statistics, the term is usually restricted to situations in which the researcher has control over some of the conditions under which the experiment takes place. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] 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. (references) | 2: [Verb] (intransitive) To conduct an experiment. (references) | |
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Common Expressions: experiment
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| A Large Ion Collider Experiment | ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is one of the five detector experiments (ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, [http://totem.web.cern.ch/Totem/ TOTEM], and LHCb) being constructed at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. It is optimized to study heavy ion collisions. Pb-Pb nuclei collisions will be studied at a centre of mass energy of 5.5 TeV per nucleon. The resulting temperature and density are expected to be large enough to generate a quark-gluon plasma, a state of matter wherein quarks and gluons are deconfined. (references) | ||
| Aerial Experiment Association | The Aerial Experiment Association (AEA) was formed in 1907 under the tutelage of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell. (references) | ||
| Afshar experiment | The Afshar experiment is an optical experiment claimed to have disproved Bohr's Principle of Complementarity, which states that a quantum system may exhibit both wave and particle properties, but not both in the same experiment. One of Afshar's assertions is that in this experiment one can check for interference fringes of a photon stream (a wave property) while at the same time observing the photon's path (path is a concept applying only to particles). The claim that the origin (that is to say, the path selected between two possible paths) of a photon can be determined in this experiment, is the author's justification for referring to it as a "which-way" experiment. Many of the claims associated with this experiment cut across several conventional ideas in quantum mechanics. (references) | ||
| Agricultural experiment station | An agricultural experiment station is a research center that conducts scientific investigations to solve problems and suggest improvements in the food and agriculture industry. Experiment station scientists work with farmers, ranchers, suppliers, processors, and others involved in food production and agriculture. They have made outstanding contributions to the development of food and agriculture in the United States and Canada. (references) | ||
| Aircraft Reactor Experiment | The US Aircraft Reactor Experiment (ARE) was a 2.5 MW thermal nuclear reactor experiment designed to attain a high power density for use as an engine in a nuclear powered bomber. It was also called the Heat Transfer Reactor Experiment, of which there were three iterations: HTRE-l, HTRE-2, and HTRE-3. It used the molten fluoride salt NaF-ZrF4-UF4 (53-41-6 mol%) as fuel and was moderated by beryllium oxide (BeO), liquid sodium as a secondary coolant, and it had a peak temperature of 860 C, it operated for a 1000hr cycle in 1954. It was the first molten salt reactor. Work on this project in the US stopped after ICBM's made it obsolete. The designs for its engines can currently be viewed at the EBR-I memorial building. (references) | ||
| An Experiment with Time | An Experiment with Time, by J.W. Dunne, was published first in March of 1927. (references) | ||
| Apollo Lunar Surface Experiment Package | The Apollo Lunar Surface Experiment Package, or ALSEP, was a set of connected scientific instruments left on the Moon when the Apollo program ended. ALSEP was powered by Radioisotope thermoelectric generators, which were turned off due to budget cuts. On February 24, 1963 the MSC Lunar Surface Experiments Panel held its first meeting. This group was formed to analyze lunar surface experiments and the adaptability of Surveyor and other unmanned probes for use with manned missions. In December 1974 the last experiment stopped working. (references) | ||
| Atacama Pathfinder Experiment | The Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) is a radio telescope located at 5,100 meters above sea level, in the Chanjnantor plateau, in northern Chile, 50 kilometers to the north of San Pedro de Atacama. (references) | ||
| ATLAS experiment | ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS) is one of the five particle detector experiments (ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, TOTEM, and LHCb) being constructed at the Large Hadron Collider, a new particle accelerator at CERN in Switzerland. It will be 45 meters long, 25 meters in diameter, and will weigh about 7,000 tons. The project involves roughly 2,000 scientists and engineers at 151 institutions in 34 countries. The construction is scheduled to be completed in 2007. The experiment is expected to measure phenomena that involve highly massive particles which were not measurable using earlier lower-energy accelerators and might shed light on new theories of particle physics beyond the Standard Model. (references) | ||
| BaBar experiment | In the field of particle physics BaBar is an international collaboration of more than 550 physicists and engineers investigating CP-violation effects using the BaBar particle detector at the Stanford Linear Accelerator, Stanford, CA, USA. If the CP symmetry holds, the decay rate of B meson particles and their anti-particles should be equal. Analysis of the BaBar results showed this was not the case—in the summer of 2002, definitive results were published based on the analysis of 87 million B/B-bar meson-pair events, clearly showing the decay rates were not equal. Consistent results were also gathered in the BELLE experiment at the KEK laboratory in Japan. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: experiment
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Axially Symmetric Divertor EXperiment | Physics | (from Herman) (ASDEX, Asdex: Garching, Germany) A large tokamak designed for the study of impurities and their control by a magnetic diverter. The H mode or high mode of operation with neutral beam injection was first observed on ASDEX. (references) | |
| Blank experiment | Chemistry | Test carried out under specified conditions with all reagents with exception of determined substance to account for consent of this substance in reagents used (2). Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Bolsover experiment | Mining | Applied to a method of working by single panels. Single 100-yd (91-m) panels are advanced, leaving 100-yd-wide coal pillars between them. The pillars are then worked on the retreat after the advancing faces havereached a limit line. (references) | |
| Earth Radiation Budget Experiment | Science | An experiment to obtain data to study the average radiation budget of the Earth and determine the energy transport gradient from the equator to the poles. Three satellites were flown in different orbits to obtain the data: the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite, ERBS (launched in October 1984), NOAA-9 (launched in December 1984), and NOAA-10 (launched in September 1986). See Television and Infrared Observation (TIROS). (ERBE). (references) | |
| Ensemble experiment | Aerospace | A collection of experiments with (slightly) different input parameters, with the idea that one can "bracket" the problem being studied and/or get a better idea of how different parameters affect the whole. For example, if one were wondering how solar variability and volcanic aerosols combine to affect the climate, one might run computer simulations with: (a) no change in solar input or aerosols, (b) change in solar input but no change in aerosols, (c) change in aerosols but no change in solar input, and (d) change in both solar input and aerosols. (references) | |
| Experiment a collection of equipment (hardware, software, specimens, etc.) and | Aerospace | Associated processes which are used to achieve specific scientific, technological, or commercial objectives. (references) | |
| Experiment racks | Aerospace | Removable and reusable assemblies in the Spacelab module that provide structural mounting and connections to supporting subsystems (power, thermal control, data management, etc.) and experiment equipment. (references) | |
| Experiment segment | Aerospace | Section of the pressurized Spacelab module that houses experiments and sensors. (references) | |
| Field Experiment | Military | War games conducted in the actual environment with actual military units and equipment. As such, these experiments have the highest applicability of results to real situations. Good field experiments, like good military exercises, are the closet thing to real challenges of actual operations; the ability to isolate the true cause of any detected change will suffer. (references) | |
| Hershey-Chase experiment | Geology | A landmark experiment done in 1952 which showed that DNA is the hereditary material. The experiment, done by Martha Hershey and Alfred Chase, involved allowing a bacteriophage which contained DNA labeled with | |
| Inclining experiment | Food & Agriculture | Experiment to determine the vertical position of the centre of gravity of the ship for one specified ship condition. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Internet Experiment Note | Computing | (IEN) A series of reports pertinent to the Internet. IENs were published in parallel to RFCs and are no longer active. See also Internet-Draft, Request For Comments. (1994-12-08). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.. | |
| Middeck experiment | Aerospace | Experiment hardware which is designed to be flown in the middeck area of the Orbiter. (references) | |
| North Atlantic Regional Experiment | Environment | A study to assess the contribution of continental air pollution to the North Atlantic Ocean. (references) | |
| Preliminary tritium experiment | Physics | Three plasma discharges on JET, in November 1991, into which, for the first time in a tokamak, a significant amount of tritium was injected. The power liberated from fusion reactions (about 2 MW for about 2 seconds) was in accordance with theoretical expectations. (references) | |
| Process and Experiment Automation Real-Time Language | Computing | ||
| State Agricultural Experiment Stations | Agriculture | The Hatch Act of 1887 established an agricultural experiment station to be affiliated with the land grant college of agriculture in each state. Research done at these stations underpins the curriculum of the colleges, as well as the programs of the Cooperative Extension System. (SAES). (references) | |
| Stratospheric Aerosol & Gas Experiment | Science | A NASA experiment to determine the vertical distribution of stratospheric aerosols, ozone, nitrogen oxide, and water vapor on a global scale and to develop a viable, satellite-based, remote sensing technique to measure these gases. SAGE III web site (SAGE). (references) | |
| Thought experiment | Aerospace | An experiment that cannot be or is not carried out in practice; it is reasoned through by thought and intuition. (references) | |
| Tokamak Physics Experiment | Physics | Smaller successor to TFTR at Princeton. Engineering design underway; construction scheduled to begin in FY 1995. (references) | |
| Try the experiment | Tips from 1870 | Usage: Try the experiment. "They are trying the experiment of running railroad trains by electricity." This should be, "They are making the experiment," etc. The word experiment contains the idea of trial, hence, to try the experiment is to try the trial. Source: Slips of Speech. | |
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