"experimentation" meaning in English

See experimentation in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ɪkˌspɛɹ.ɪ.mənˈteɪ.ʃən/ [UK], /ɛkˌspɛɹ.ɪ.mənˈteɪ.ʃən/ [UK], /ɪkˌspɛɹ.ə.mənˈteɪ.ʃən/ [US], /ɪkˌspɪɹ.ə.mənˈteɪ.ʃən/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-experimentation.wav Forms: experimentations [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: From Latin ex- + -periri (akin to periculum), "attempt". Morphologically experiment + -ation. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|experiment|ation}} 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 /实验 (shíyàn) (Chinese Mandarin), eksperimenteren [common-gender] (Danish), eksperimentado (Esperanto), kokeilu (Finnish), expérimentation [feminine] (French), experimentación [feminine] (Galician), Experimentieren [neuter] (German), sperimentazione [feminine] (Italian), whakamātauranga (Maori), eksperimentering [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), eksperimentering [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), experimentação [feminine] (Portuguese), 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
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: animal experimentation, experimentational, self-experimentation, sexperimentation

Inflected forms

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      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "act of experimenting",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "experimentación"
    }
  ],
  "word": "experimentation"
}

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