EXPERIMENTAL CONDITION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does experimental condition mean? 

• EXPERIMENTAL CONDITION (noun)
  The noun EXPERIMENTAL CONDITION has 1 sense:

1. the procedure that is varied in order to estimate a variable's effect by comparison with a control condition

  Familiarity information: EXPERIMENTAL CONDITION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXPERIMENTAL CONDITION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The procedure that is varied in order to estimate a variable's effect by comparison with a control condition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

condition; experimental condition

Hypernyms ("experimental condition" is a kind of...):

procedure; process (a particular course of action intended to achieve a result)

Holonyms ("experimental condition" is a part of...):

experiment; experimentation (the act of conducting a controlled test or investigation)

 Context examples 

Experimental condition created by disrupting cells with homogenization, sonication, detergents, or other treatment, leaving intracellular components exposed to controlled manipulation of the medium.

(Cell-free System, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

A unit of measure of the fluorescence intensity of a fluorochrome-labeled sample, which is equivalent to the fluorescence intensity of a solution containing an equivalent number of molecules of free fluorochrome in solution, under identical experimental conditions.

(Molecule of Equivalent Soluble Fluorochrome, NCI Thesaurus)