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experiment in English:

1. research design characterized by random assignment of participant to conditions and manipulation of an independent variable



2. fact


He denied that fact.
Was he, in fact, guilty of wrongdoing?
A good theory is characterized by the fact that it makes a number of predictions that could in principle be disproved or falsified by observation.
We've had no rain for ages; in fact, not since the beginning of April.
Officially it is his responsibility, but in fact his secretary does all the work.
It was very expensive; in fact, I paid 100 dollars.
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to undervalue them.
There are lots of theories about the origins of language, but, in fact, no one really knows.
In fact, love is the only genuinely precious thing in life; it's also the only thing worthy of pursuit.
The only metal that a metal detector can detect is the metal in another metal detector. That fact was instrumental in my parents' meeting.
When Chokichi thought listlessly about this winter, and the similar winter before and the one before that, he vividly experienced the fact that as people grow older, they gradually lose their happiness.
They all get lumped together as English texts. But in fact these books are extremely varied and wide-ranging.
It can be said, in fact, that research, by exploring the greatest and the smallest, contributes to the glory of God which is reflected in every part of the universe.
A polite way to reveal knowledge of a fact without telling the source of the information is to say, "a little bird told me".
In fact, an artist lacking in confidence and fortitude would lose focus after 2 or 3 hours.

3. test to see how or if something works



English word "experiment"(test to see how or if something works) occurs in sets:

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4. a process in which you test a new idea or method to see if it is useful or effective



English word "experiment"(a process in which you test a new idea or method to see if it is useful or effective) occurs in sets:

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5. experiment


Laboratory experiment.
Although the conditions are slightly different, the result of our experiment was identical with Robinson's.
What is shown in the above experiment is that the right hemisphere of the brain is not used at all.
Our experiment has revealed that his report was unreliable.
If other conditions are equal, the temperature must be the most influential element in this experiment.
Every experiment required a protected environment and an entirely objective frame of mind.
It is unclear in Patterson's experiment whether the output objects fully correspond to the designed models.
From the viewpoint of tissue culture, the environment for this experiment should be more rigidly defined.
It is of great significance in this experiment to accelerate the particle M in the horizontal direction.
There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.
In our experiment, single people ask their mother and their best friend to help them meet a partner.
In 2003, Columbia University tried to recreate Milgram's experiment on the internet.
One American scientist, William Keeton, used a very interesting experiment to solve this mystery.
I was not being taught to experiment or even to repeat experiments.
An experiment, I would learn much later, when studying the philosophy of science, had to arise from a real dissatisfaction with existing knowledge.