experimentation

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ɪkˌspɛɹ.ɪ.mənˈteɪ.ʃən/|/ɛkˌspɛɹ.ɪ.mənˈteɪ.ʃən/    美 /ɪkˌspɛɹ.ə.mənˈteɪ.ʃən/|/ɪkˌspɪɹ.ə.mənˈteɪ.ʃən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of experimenting; practice by experiment. countable,uncountable
    — When we situate climax during intercourse as the bullseye, we gate off the idiosyncrasy and experimentation that are the wellspring of sexual pleasure.
  2. A set of actions and observations, performed to verify or falsify a hypothesis or to research a causal relationship between phenomena. countable,uncountable
    — As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.

词形变化

experimentations plural

词汇关系

衍生词
animal experimentation experimentational self-experimentation sexperimentation

词源

From Latin ex- + -periri (akin to periculum), "attempt". Morphologically experiment + -ation.
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