EXPERIMENTAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does experimental mean? 

• EXPERIMENTAL (adjective)
  The adjective EXPERIMENTAL has 3 senses:

1. relating to or based on experiment

2. relying on observation or experiment

3. of the nature of or undergoing an experiment

  Familiarity information: EXPERIMENTAL used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXPERIMENTAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or based on experiment

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

experimental physics

Pertainym:

experiment (the testing of an idea)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Relying on observation or experiment

Synonyms:

data-based; experimental; observational

Context example:

experimental results that supported the hypothesis

Similar:

empiric; empirical (derived from experiment and observation rather than theory)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Of the nature of or undergoing an experiment

Context example:

an experimental drug

Similar:

empiric; empirical (derived from experiment and observation rather than theory)

 Context examples 

Eight infants with the disorder, called X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency (X-SCID), received an experimental gene therapy co-developed by National Institutes of Health scientists.

(Gene therapy restores immunity in infants with rare immunodeficiency disease, National Institutes of Health)

The common house mouse, often used as an experimental organism.

(Mus musculus, NCI Thesaurus)

A program to develop and refine experimental models that reflect the etiology and progression of human cancer.

(Mouse Models of Human Cancer Consortium, NCI Thesaurus)

The result of the investigation of the absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion (ADME) of an experimental substance by an organism.

(ADME Finding, NCI Thesaurus)

Used to induce cancer in experimental animal models, N-ethyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine ethylates DNA, resulting in single- and double-stranded DNA breaks and the inhibition of DNA replication.

(N-ethyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine, NCI Thesaurus)

Experimental models are used to study processes thought to be involved in human diseases, and to evaluate and select therapies that affect these processes.

(Natural protein points to new inflammation treatment, NIH)

This substance is reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen based on evidence of carcinogenicity in experimental animals.

(Chlorophenothane, NCI Thesaurus)

Fenoldopam, which specifically activates dopaminergic receptor type 1, controlled inflammation and improved survival in experimental mouse models of adrenal insufficiency.

(Electroacupuncture Reduces Sepsis in Mice, NIH)

It represents a way to aggregate quarks, namely the fundamental constituents of ordinary protons and neutrons, in a pattern that has never been observed before in over fifty years of experimental searches.

(Physicists discover long-sought 'pentaquark' particle, NSF)

Many types are used as an experimental model for human disease and drug testing.

(Monkey, NCI Thesaurus)