experimentとは

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ɪ.mənt/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/
• ハイフネーション: ex‧per‧i‧ment

名詞

experiment (複数形 experiments)

1. A test under controlled conditions made to either demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy of something previously untried.
2. (obsolete) Experience, practical familiarity with something.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:

     Pilot [...] Vpon his card and compas firmes his eye, / The maisters of his long experiment, / And to them does the steddy helme apply [...].

派生語

• sexperiment

関連する語

• experimental

動詞

experiment (三人称単数 現在形 experiments, 現在分詞 experimenting, 過去形および過去分詞形 experimented)

1. (intransitive) To conduct an experiment.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To experience; to feel; to perceive; to detect.
   • 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):

     The Earth, the which may have carried us about perpetually ... without our being ever able to experiment its rest.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To test or ascertain by experiment; to try out; to make an experiment on.
   • 1481 William Caxton, The Mirrour of the World 1.5.22:

     Til they had experimented whiche was trewe, and who knewe most.

派生語

• experimenter

参照

• “experiment” in John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors, The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.