experimental

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   relying on observation or experiment

   experimental results that supported the hypothesis

2. 2
   adj

   of the nature of or undergoing an experiment

   an experimental drug

3. 3
   adj

   relating to or based on experiment

   experimental physics

4. 4
   adj

   Pertaining to or founded on experiment.

   Chemistry is an experimental science.

5. 5
   adj

   Serving to be experimented upon; used in an experiment.

   Brown-Séquard, noting that Addison's disease involved the failure of the adrenal (or suprarenal) glands near the kidneys, removed them in experimental animals, and thus proved they were necessary for life […].

6. 6
   adj

   Serving as an experiment; serving to experiment.

   his experimental band

7. 7
   adj

   Experiential, empirical.

   experimental knowledge

8. 8
   noun

   The subject of an experiment.

Etymology

From experiment + -al.