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EXPERIMENTAL METHOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does experimental method mean? 

EXPERIMENTAL METHOD (noun)
  The noun EXPERIMENTAL METHOD has 1 sense:

1. the use of controlled observations and measurements to test hypothesesplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


EXPERIMENTAL METHOD (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The use of controlled observations and measurements to test hypotheses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

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

scientific method (a method of investigation involving observation and theory to test scientific hypotheses)


 Context examples 


A subdiscipline of psychiatry that is concerned with the study of conditioning, learning, perception, motivation, emotion, language, and thinking; also used in relation to subject-matter areas in which experimental methods are emphasized.

(Experimental Psychiatry, NCI Thesaurus)



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