control condition

1. 1.

   a standard against which other conditions can be compared in a scientific experiment

   “the control condition was inappropriate for the conclusions he wished to draw”

   Synonymscontrol

   Broadercriterion

   Part ofexperiment

Questions about control condition

What does control condition mean?

control condition means "a standard against which other conditions can be compared in a scientific experiment".

What is another word for control condition?

Close synonyms include control. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is control condition a common word?

control condition is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.