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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ɪkˌspɛɹ.ɪ.mənˈteɪ.ʃən/, /ɛkˌspɛɹ.ɪ.mənˈteɪ.ʃən/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ɪkˌspɛɹ.ə.mənˈteɪ.ʃən/, /ɪkˌspɪɹ.ə.mənˈteɪ.ʃən/
• 韻: -eɪʃən
• ハイフネーション: ex‧per‧i‧ment

名詞

experimentation (countable and uncountable, plural experimentations)

1. The act of experimenting; practice by experiment.
   • 2023 March 21, Zoe Williams, “The orgasm gap – and how to close it: ‘Don’t equate sex and penetration’”, in The Guardian‎, archived from the original on 31 March 2023:

     When we situate climax during intercourse as the bullseye, we gate off the idiosyncrasy and experimentation that are the wellspring of sexual pleasure.

2. (sciences) A set of actions and observations, performed to verify or falsify a hypothesis or to research a causal relationship between phenomena.
   • 2012 January, Robert M. Pringle, “How to Be Manipulative”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 3 October 2013, page 31:

     As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.

派生語