experimental: Meaning and Definition of

ex•per•i•men•tal

Pronunciation: (ik-sper"u-men'tl), [key]

— adj.

pertaining to, derived from, or founded on experiment: an experimental science.
of the nature of an experiment; tentative: The new program is still in an experimental stage.
functioning as an experiment or used for experimentation: an experimental airplane.
based on or derived from experience; empirical: experimental knowledge.

—n.

something that is experimental.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

See also:

experimental (Thesaurus)

experiment experimentalism

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