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say it: ik-SPER-uh-muhnt
experiment is a noun and verb meaning "the act of conducting a controlled test or investigation". It carries 5 recorded senses.
the act of conducting a controlled test or investigation
the testing of an idea
“it was an experiment in living”
“not all experimentation is done in laboratories”
to conduct a test or investigation
“We are experimenting with the new drug in order to fight this disease”
try something new, as in order to gain experience
“Students experiment sexually”
“The composer experimented with a new style”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for experiment come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.