"experimentation" meaning in All languages combined

See experimentation on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-experimentation.wav [US] Forms: experimentations [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: From Latin ex- + -periri (akin to periculum), "attempt". Morphologically experiment + -ation Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|experiment|ation|nocat=1}} experiment + -ation Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} experimentation (countable and uncountable, plural experimentations)
  1. The act of experimenting; practice by experiment. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (act of experimenting): experimentació [feminine] (Catalan), 實驗 (Chinese Mandarin), 实验 (shíyàn) (Chinese Mandarin), eksperimenteren [common-gender] (Danish), eksperimentado (Esperanto), kokeilu (Finnish), expérimentation [feminine] (French), experimentación [feminine] (Galician), Experimentieren [neuter] (German), whakamātauranga (Maori), eksperimentering [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), eksperimentering [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), эксперименти́рование (eksperimentírovanije) [neuter] (Russian), experimentación [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-experimentation-en-noun-yhiW5f4W Disambiguation of 'act of experimenting': 98 2
  2. (sciences) A set of actions and observations, performed to verify or falsify a hypothesis or to research a causal relationship between phenomena. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Sciences
    Sense id: en-experimentation-en-noun-KpGWu-CT Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 27 73 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 34 66 Topics: sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: animal experimentation, sexperimentation

Inflected forms

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