EXPERIMENTATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does experimentation mean? 

• EXPERIMENTATION (noun)
  The noun EXPERIMENTATION has 2 senses:

1. the testing of an idea

2. the act of conducting a controlled test or investigation

  Familiarity information: EXPERIMENTATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXPERIMENTATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The testing of an idea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

experiment; experimentation

Context example:

not all experimentation is done in laboratories

Hypernyms ("experimentation" is a kind of...):

enquiry; inquiry; research (a search for knowledge)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "experimentation"):

pilot experiment (a preliminary experiment whose outcome can lead to a more extensive experiment)

test; trial; trial run; tryout (trying something to find out about it)

Derivation:

experiment (to conduct a test or investigation)

experiment (try something new, as in order to gain experience)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of conducting a controlled test or investigation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

experiment; experimentation

Hypernyms ("experimentation" is a kind of...):

research project; scientific research (research into questions posed by scientific theories and hypotheses)

Meronyms (parts of "experimentation"):

control; control condition (a standard against which other conditions can be compared in a scientific experiment)

condition; experimental condition (the procedure that is varied in order to estimate a variable's effect by comparison with a control condition)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "experimentation"):

testing (the act of subjecting to experimental test in order to determine how well something works)

trial and error (experimenting until a solution is found)

Michelson-Morley experiment (a celebrated experiment conducted by Albert Michelson and Edward Morley; their failure to detect any influence of the earth's motion on the velocity of light was the starting point for Einstein's theory of relativity)

control experiment (an experiment designed to control for variables affecting the results of another experiment)

Derivation:

experiment (to conduct a test or investigation)

 Context examples 

An animal that is amenable to experimentation and whose physiological or pathologic mechanisms are sufficiently similar to those of a human for the animal to serve as a model.

(Animal model, NCI Thesaurus)

Being studied; investigational; derived by experimentation.

(Experimental, NCI Thesaurus)

To scientists at the University of Chicago interested in the role rhythm plays in how humans understand language, the differences between these inputs provided an opportunity for experimentation.

(The Rhythms of Sign Language, NSF)