"experimenter" meaning in English

See experimenter in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: experimenters [plural]
Etymology: From experiment + -er. Etymology templates: {{af|en|experiment|-er|id2=agent noun}} experiment + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} experimenter (plural experimenters)
  1. A person who experiments. Derived forms: interexperimenter Translations (person who experiments): փորձարար (pʻorjarar) (Armenian), experimentador [masculine] (Catalan), experimentadora [feminine] (Catalan), experimentátor [masculine] (Czech), experimenteerder [masculine] (Dutch), kokeilija (Finnish), expérimentateur [masculine] (French), expérimentatrice [feminine] (French), Experimentator [masculine] (German), Experimentatorin [feminine] (German), πειραματιστής (peiramatistís) (Greek), sperimentatore [masculine] (Italian), sperimentatrice [feminine] (Italian), eksperymentator [masculine] (Polish), eksperymentatorka [feminine] (Polish), experimentador [masculine] (Portuguese), experimentadora [feminine] (Portuguese), experimentator [masculine] (Romanian), experimentatoare [feminine] (Romanian), эксперимента́тор (eksperimentátor) [masculine] (Russian), экспериментаторша (eksperimentatorša) [feminine] (Russian), experimentador [masculine] (Spanish), experimentadora [feminine] (Spanish), experimentator [common-gender] (Swedish), försöksledare [common-gender] (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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