EXPERIMENTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does experimenter mean? 

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

1. a research worker who conducts experiments

2. a person who enjoys testing innovative ideas

  Familiarity information: EXPERIMENTER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXPERIMENTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A research worker who conducts experiments

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

investigator; research worker; researcher (a scientist who devotes himself to doing research)

Derivation:

experiment (to conduct a test or investigation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who enjoys testing innovative ideas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

she was an experimenter in new forms of poetry

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

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

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

tinker; tinkerer (a person who enjoys fixing and experimenting with machines and their parts)