experimentation
Pronunciation: /ɪkˌspɛɹ.ɪ.mənˈteɪ.ʃən/
The English word “experimentation” has 2 meanings listed here.
noun
- The act of experimenting; practice by experiment.
- A set of actions and observations, performed to verify or falsify a hypothesis or to research a causal relationship between phenomena.
Etymology
From Latin ex- + -periri (akin to periculum), "attempt". Morphologically experiment + -ation.
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