Word Finder - experiment

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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.

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Experience, practical familiarity with something.

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To conduct an experiment.

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To experience; to feel; to perceive; to detect.

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To test or ascertain by experiment; to try out; to make an experiment on.

I shut down my experiment at six o'clock.

Quinn's experiment is very important to him.

We updated him on our experiment but his mind was elsewhere.

If chemical compounds can be proved by experiment to obey these laws, then the atomic theory acquires a high degree of probability; if they are contradicted by experiment then the atomic theory must be abandoned, or very much modified.

You will be glad to hear that my experiment is working out finely.

Let's do a thought experiment about this.

I shut off all my equipment at six o'clock when my experiment expires.

This book, her first mature experiment in writing, settles the question of her ability to write.

The experiment was interesting, but of course came to little.

A similar experiment had been tried in France not without success.

The experiment is, in fact, much improved by passing the primary light through a coloured glass.

Was she really a one night stand and science experiment he enjoyed toying with, like she told Damian?

Briicke also brought forward an experiment of great importance, in which he showed that gum mastic, precipitated from an alcoholic solution poured into a large quantity of water, scatters light of a blue tint.

For once, she hoped Ully's oddball experiment didn.t let her down.

I can't shut down the experiment until six PM tomorrow night.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

I thought, however, that the advantage she would derive would not repay her for the time and labour that such an experiment would cost.

They agree very well with experiment, and require us to suppose that the vibrations are perpendicular to the plane of polarization.

Following on this he made an interesting experiment, using Morse's method, to connect the Isle of Wight telegraphically with the mainland, by conduction across the Solent in two places, during a temporary failure of the submarine cable in 1882 in that channel.

In 1831 Wheatstone by his " magic lyre" experiment showed that, when the sounding-boards of two musical instruments are connected together by a rod of pine wood, a tune played on one will be faithfully reproduced by the other.

Thomsen by direct experiment found that the heat-capacity of a dilute aqueous solution diverged in general less than i per cent.

But neither temperament nor training allowed her to make her pupil the object of any experiment or observation which did not help in the child's development.

We are the subjects of an experiment which is not a little interesting to me.

Having learned from experiment and argument that a stone falls downwards, a man indubitably believes this and always expects the law that he has learned to be fulfilled.

Similarly, if we know by experiment the composition of water and of ammonia, we can predict the probable composition of the oxides of nitrogen.

It must be conceded as no small merit in Lydgate that, in an age of experiment he should have succeeded so often in hitting the right word.

The second half of the 17th century witnessed remarkable transitions and developments in all branches of natural science,and the facts accumulated by preceding generations during their generally unordered researches were re placed by a co-ordination of experiment and deduction.

The former experiment had been performed by Scheele and Priestley, who had named the gas " phlogisticated air "; Lavoisier subsequently named it oxygen, regarding it as the " acid producer " (OE, sour).

Still, till the last Berzelius remained faithful to his original theory; experiment, which he had hitherto held to be the only sure method of research, he discarded, and in its place he substituted pure speculation, which greatly injured the radical theory.

By experiment it is found that the thermal effect of a double bond is much less than the effect of two single bonds, while a triple bond has a much smaller effect than three single bonds.

From supersaturated solutions the form unstable at the temperature of the experiment is, as a rule, separated, especially on the introduction of a crystal of the unstable form; and, in some cases, similar inoculation of the fused substance is attended by the same result.

The experiment of arming the native Egyptians on a large scale does not seem to have been made before the campaign of 217, when Ptolemy IV.

Morse's petition for a patent was soon followed by a petition to Congress for an appropriation to defray the expense of subjecting the telegraph to actual experiment over a length sufficient to establish its feasibility and demonstrate its value.

Hundreds of varieties have been tested by the state and federal agricultural experiment stations.

A central agricultural experiment station (founded 1904) is maintained by the government at Santiago de las Vegas; but there is no agricultural college, nor any special school for the scientific teaching and improvement of sugar and tobacco farming or manufacture.

In Havana, also, there is a school of painting and sculpture, a school of arts and trades, and a national library, all of which are supported or subventioned by the national government, as are also a public library in Matanzas, and the Agricultural Experiment Station at Santiago de las Vegas.

The Federal government has an agricultural experiment station at Mayaguez.

In his Sceptical Chemist (1662) he freely criticized the prevailing scientific views and methods, with the object of showing that true knowledge could only be gained by the logical application of the principles of experiment and deduction.

Experiment, however, showed that while the quotient on the left hand of this equation was fairly constant for a great number of substances, yet its value was not gR but 7 R; this means that the critical density is, as a general rule, 3.7 times the theoretical density.

Accordingly, every treatise on applied mathematics, properly so-called, is directed to the criticism of the "laws" from which the reasoning starts, or to a suggestion of results which experiment may hope to find.

Thus if it calculates the result of some experiment, it is not the experimentalist's well-attested results which are on their trial, but the basis of the calculation.

It was in 1845 he made the now famous experiment of Walden.

For such an experiment, though hampered by continual insurrections within Policy in and troubles without, Mahmud had done some- Turkey.

Though the experiment with this engine was successful, the design was abandoned by the pasha, and Belzoni resolved to continue his travels.

In October 1908, at a special election, the security franchise was invalidated, and this seemed to have the effect of dissolving the lease held by the Municipal Traction Co., and of ending the city's experiment in operating (indirectly) the street car lines.

At Amherst is also the MassachusettsAgricultural College (co-educational; 1867) and experiment station (1887).

An experiment by Ewing showed that by the operation of stretching an annealed iron wire beyond the limits of elasticity the permeability under a magnetizing force of about 3 units was reduced by as much as 75%.

In the same paper Nagaoka and Honda describe an important experiment on the effect of transverse stress.

This is a very striking experiment.

This is a matter of experiment.