as in test
a procedure or operation carried out to resolve an uncertainty
Benjamin Franklin's famous experiment in which he flew a kite in a thunderstorm to see if lightning and electricity were identical
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In the future, Ulbricht would like to carry out the quantum version of the experiment, which would entail observing the spontaneous generation of electromagnetic waves and their amplification from the vacuum.
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Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 12 May 2025
Nearly a month later, her experiment in culinary nostalgia and empathetic ownership continues in what Armenta has christened East Los Pantry.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2025
Perhaps Substack could have a similar era of influence, becoming a place where people gather for an accessible twenty-first-century version of literary community, collaborate on the formation of new readerly sensibilities, and share their own experiments at high speed and low cost.
—Peter C. Baker, New Yorker, 11 May 2025
And in an experiment that has been tracking seeds of 91 California native plant species since 1947, many seeds lost the ability to sprout in the first several decades, says Christina Walters, a seed biologist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture who is curating the study.
—Katarina Zimmer, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2025
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Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 12 May 2025
Nearly a month later, her experiment in culinary nostalgia and empathetic ownership continues in what Armenta has christened East Los Pantry.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2025
Perhaps Substack could have a similar era of influence, becoming a place where people gather for an accessible twenty-first-century version of literary community, collaborate on the formation of new readerly sensibilities, and share their own experiments at high speed and low cost.
—Peter C. Baker, New Yorker, 11 May 2025
And in an experiment that has been tracking seeds of 91 California native plant species since 1947, many seeds lost the ability to sprout in the first several decades, says Christina Walters, a seed biologist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture who is curating the study.
—Katarina Zimmer, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for experiment
test
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However, department officials declined to provide the copies of the soil test results, saying data had yet to be finalized.—
Tony Briscoe,
Los Angeles Times,
9 May 2025
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But training manuals from both the FWC and State Attorney’s Office list significant injuries and deaths as probable cause for a blood draw in a sobriety test, the Herald’s investigation found.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
9 May 2025
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