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TRIAL AND ERROR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does trial and error mean?
• TRIAL AND ERROR (noun)
The noun TRIAL AND ERROR has 1 sense:
1. experimenting until a solution is found
Familiarity information: TRIAL AND ERROR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Experimenting until a solution is found
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("trial and error" is a kind of...):
experiment; experimentation (the act of conducting a controlled test or investigation)
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