See preexperiment on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "pre",
"3": "experiment"
},
"expansion": "pre- + experiment",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From pre- + experiment.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "preexperiment (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "67 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "66 34",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms prefixed with pre-",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "67 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "67 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Before an experiment takes place."
],
"id": "en-preexperiment-en-adj-vqy-LY-H",
"links": [
[
"experiment",
"experiment"
]
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
]
}
],
"word": "preexperiment"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "pre",
"3": "experiment"
},
"expansion": "pre- + experiment",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From pre- + experiment.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "preexperiments",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "preexperiment (plural preexperiments)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2016, Marina Krcmar, David R. Ewoldsen, Ascan Koerner, Communication Science Theory and Research:",
"text": "A study that uses only a manipulation is considered a pre-experiment. As the name implies, a pre-experiment has not quite achieved the level of control necessary to be termed an experiment at all.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2020, Earl R. Babbie, The Practice of Social Research, page 247:",
"text": "Campbell and Stanley describe three forms of preexperiments: the one-shot case study, the one-group pretest–posttest design, and the static-group comparison.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A simple form of research that examines a group or groups before and after an event, to see whether there is change, but does not employ a control group."
],
"id": "en-preexperiment-en-noun-vA9LlwZj",
"links": [
[
"research",
"research"
],
[
"control group",
"control group"
]
]
}
],
"word": "preexperiment"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms prefixed with pre-",
"English uncomparable adjectives",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "pre",
"3": "experiment"
},
"expansion": "pre- + experiment",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From pre- + experiment.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "preexperiment (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"Before an experiment takes place."
],
"links": [
[
"experiment",
"experiment"
]
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
]
}
],
"word": "preexperiment"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms prefixed with pre-",
"English uncomparable adjectives",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "pre",
"3": "experiment"
},
"expansion": "pre- + experiment",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From pre- + experiment.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "preexperiments",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "preexperiment (plural preexperiments)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2016, Marina Krcmar, David R. Ewoldsen, Ascan Koerner, Communication Science Theory and Research:",
"text": "A study that uses only a manipulation is considered a pre-experiment. As the name implies, a pre-experiment has not quite achieved the level of control necessary to be termed an experiment at all.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2020, Earl R. Babbie, The Practice of Social Research, page 247:",
"text": "Campbell and Stanley describe three forms of preexperiments: the one-shot case study, the one-group pretest–posttest design, and the static-group comparison.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A simple form of research that examines a group or groups before and after an event, to see whether there is change, but does not employ a control group."
],
"links": [
[
"research",
"research"
],
[
"control group",
"control group"
]
]
}
],
"word": "preexperiment"
}
Download raw JSONL data for preexperiment meaning in All languages combined (2.3kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-21 using wiktextract (7c21d10 and f2e72e5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.