experimentation

noun

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

The act of experimenting; practice by experiment.

Roots

periorperi- · Latin · try, test

Synonyms for experimentation

experimentn experimentalismn testingn empiricismn

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