experimentation

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for experimentation.

Home Featured words Jump to examples

Editorial note

Might be a step toward (a) moving existing tools online for easy experimentation and (b) deploying new ones.

Examples15

Definitions2

Parts of speech1

Quick take

The act of experimenting; practice by experiment.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of experimentation gathered in one view.

noun

The act of experimenting; practice by experiment.

noun

(sciences) A set of actions and observations, performed to verify or falsify a hypothesis or to research a causal relationship between phenomena.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for experimentation.

noun

The act of experimenting; practice by experiment.

noun

(sciences) A set of actions and observations, performed to verify or falsify a hypothesis or to research a causal relationship between phenomena.

Example sentences

Might be a step toward (a) moving existing tools online for easy experimentation and (b) deploying new ones.

People with LD were used as subjects of medical experimentation against their will and without their knowledge.

As an alternative you might like to play with Lattice[0], which is extracted from Cloud Foundry to enable easy experimentation.

This game is a tool for experimentation - it gave me motivation to start learning.

Also, they're iterating very fast with Physical Web, but it's still in experimentation phase.

This is a tiny fraction of the budget, and it seems to me like it's worth doing some experimentation to see what works.

In practice, you should expect to engage in quite a bit of experimentation.

Retards have been used for medical experimentation by people calling them retards.

When I was a teenager, I was doing some experimentation with 2d shadows in Flash.

This isn't experimentation, it's a survey, and it's been interpreted with a lot of cognitive bias, with the researcher projecting a lot of assumed meaning.

If I wanted to set something up like that, just for fun/experimentation, is there a tutorial on how to go about it?

Exactly, Imagine introducing programming to kids at the same time they learn the cartesian coordinate system, or allowing them to grasp f(x) = sin(x) visually through experimentation.

Quote examples

This seems to be the narrative that the author wants to promote: "Startups run on an alchemy of ignorance and amnesia that is incredibly important to experimentation.

But for many, having a well-practiced ability to do operations on matrices and vectors first (even if it's just a bunch of magic formuas) allows them to learn the more basic facts via experimentation, because they don't get "stuck" right at the beginning.

If you compare our two analyses some of the claims you make cannot be tested via experimentation, such as "convoluted unnecessary cognitive path." I'm not sure what that means, how we would determine if the user has gone down that route, or how we would measure the convolution of a "cognitive path." Nonetheless, I like this discussion.