experimental

experiment +‎ -al[1]

• IPA^(key): /ɨkspɛɹəˈmɛntəl/, /ɨkˌspɛɹəˈmɛntəl/

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• Rhymes: -ɛntəl

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 2016, p. 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.
   • 2012 March-April, Colin Allen, “Do I See What You See?”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 2, 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.

   his experimental band

   an experimental engine

4. Experiential, empirical.

   experimental knowledge

experimental (plural experimentals)

1. The subject of an experiment.

• control

experimental (masculine and feminine plural experimentals)

1. experimental

• experimentalisme
• experimentalista
• experimentalment

• experiment
• experimentar

• “experimental” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “experimental”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “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.

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

1. Misspelling of expérimental.

experimental m or f (plural experimentais)

1. experimental

• experimento

• “experimental” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

experimental (not comparable)

1. experimental

• experimento

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

experimental m or f (plural experimentais)

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

• “experimental” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

From French expérimental, from Latin experimentalis.

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

1. experiential

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

experimental (plural experimentales)

1. experimental

• experimentalismo
• experimentalmente

• experimento

• “experimental”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014