say it: ik-sper-uh-muhn-TAY-shuhn
experimentation is a noun meaning "the testing of an idea". It carries 2 recorded senses.
the testing of an idea
“it was an experiment in living”
“not all experimentation is done in laboratories”
the act of conducting a controlled test or investigation
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 experimentation 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.