Phrase Hound found 19 phrases and 24 compound words that contain experiment. The most common are listed below. Open experiment in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 19
- thought experimentAn attempt to solve a problem using the power of human imagination.
- Milgram experimentA social psychology experiment performed by Stanley Milgram in 1963, measuring people's willingness to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience.
- science experimentA state of extreme uncleanliness, especially one which involves food mess left for an excessive period of time that is liable to spoil, rot, mold, etc.
- noble experimentProhibition
- forbidden experimentAn experiment where an infant is isolated from the normal use of language in an attempt to discover the fundamental character of human nature or the origin of language.
- blue bottle experimentA chemical reaction in which an aqueous solution containing glucose, sodium hydroxide and methylene blue turns from colourless to blue upon shaking and then loses its colour after a while. With further shaking, the cycle can be repeated …
- control experimentA parallel experiment designed to replicate the main experiment in every way, except in respect of the one variable that is being tested, so as isolate the effect of that variable; for example, an experiment in which subjects are given a …
- pilot experimentA small-scale preliminary study designed to test the feasibility methods and design of a larger research project.
- self-experimentTo conduct an experiment on oneself.
- Stern-Gerlach experimentAn experiment demonstrating that the spatial orientation of angular momentum is quantized, and thus an atomic-scale system has intrinsically quantum properties.
- Michelson-Morley experimentAn attempt in 1887 to detect the existence of the luminiferous aether by comparing the speed of light in perpendicular directions.
- Wizard of Oz experimentIn the field of human-computer interaction, a research experiment in which subjects interact with a computer system that they believe to be autonomous, but which is actually being operated by an unseen human being.
- factorial experimentAn experiment that tests all combinations of multiple parameters or variables.
- double-slit experimentAn experiment demonstrating that light and matter can satisfy the seemingly incongruous classical definitions for both waves and particles, regarded as evidence for the fundamentally probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics. A coherent …
- gedanken experimentAlternative form of gedankenexperiment: thought experiment
- ganzfeld experimentAn experiment in parapsychology that attempts to gauge telepathic ability by putting a subject into sensory deprivation and afterwards asking him/her to identify an object that was observed by somebody else during that period.
- Hughes-Drever experimentAny of various spectroscopic tests of the isotropy of mass and space, originally to test Mach's principle and now understood to be important tests of Lorentz invariance.
- zombie thought experimentA philosophical theory which states that consciousness cannot be reduced to merely physical things.
- Valsalvian experimentThe Valsalva manoeuvre.
Compound words 24
- experimentalPertaining to or founded on experiment.
- experimentationThe act of experimenting; practice by experiment.
- experimenteeSomeone who is subjected to an experiment.
- gedankenexperimentthought experiment
- preexperimentBefore an experiment takes place.
- interexperimentinterexperimental
- intraexperimentintraexperimental
- experimentaryexperimental
- experimentistAn experimenter, or leader of an experiment.
- experimentwiseWith regard to experiments