- based on new ideas, forms or methods that are used to find out what effect they have
- The school's experimental teaching methods include letting the children decide what to study.
- experimental theatre/art/music
- The equipment is still at the experimental stage.
- Doctors stress that this kind of treatment is still experimental.
Extra Examples- These techniques are still highly experimental.
- Actors and audience worked together to create three pieces of experimental theatre.
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- connected with scientific experiments
- experimental conditions/data/evidence
- experimental physics
Word Originlate 15th cent. (in the sense ‘having personal experience’, also ‘experienced, observed’): from medieval Latin experimentalis, from Latin experimentum, from experiri ‘try’.
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