n.
Pronunciation: ik- ' sper- ə -m ə nt also - ' spir-
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French esperiment, from Latin experimentum, from experiri
Date: 14th century
1 a : TEST , TRIAL <make another experiment of his suspicion ― Shakespeare> b : a tentative procedure or policy c : an operation or procedure carried out under controlled conditions in order to discover an unknown effect or law, to test or establish a hypothesis, or to illustrate a known law
2 obsolete : EXPERIENCE
3 : the process of testing : EXPERIMENTATION