Experiment

eks-per'-e-ment, s. an act or operation or effect, or to establish it when discovered, specifically by varying at our will the combination of things Explode, and circumstances and then observing the result: ] v.n. to make an experiment; to search by trial: υ.α to put to the proof; to experience. pediment; derived from or founded on experiment; taught by or derived from experience. Experimental philosophy, those branches of science, such as chemistry, the deductions in which are founded on experiment, as contrasted with the moral, mathematical, and speculative, which it is argued are founded respectively on the independent authority of conscience, logic, or reason. Experimentally, eks-per-emen' tal-le, ad. by experiment; by experience. makes experiments. experimenting. mental.