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EXPERIMENTAL METHOD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does experimental method mean?
• EXPERIMENTAL METHOD (noun)
The noun EXPERIMENTAL METHOD has 1 sense:
1. the use of controlled observations and measurements to test hypotheses
Familiarity information: EXPERIMENTAL METHOD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The use of controlled observations and measurements to test hypotheses
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("experimental method" is a kind of...):
scientific method (a method of investigation involving observation and theory to test scientific hypotheses)
Context examples
A subdiscipline of psychiatry that is concerned with the study of conditioning, learning, perception, motivation, emotion, language, and thinking; also used in relation to subject-matter areas in which experimental methods are emphasized.
(Experimental Psychiatry, NCI Thesaurus)
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