Other forms: experimentations
Experimentation is the trying out of new methods to see what works. Careful experimentation, years of experimentation, experimentation with form.
It means the process rather than any single experiment, and it implies a run of attempts most of which fail. In art it is praise; in medicine it needs consent, and the history of what was done without it is one of the darker parts of the record.
1nounexperimentationThe trying out of new methods to see what works.
“The chef's menu is the result of years of experimentation with unusual flavours.”
experimentation is a process.
From experiment, from Latin experiri, to try. Peril and expert come from the same root.
Proto-Indo-European
*per-
Latin
experimentum — experience, attempt, experiment
Old French
esperiment
Middle English
experiment
English
experiment
English, today
experimentation
Built from
From Latin ex- + -periri (akin to periculum), "attempt". Morphologically experiment + -ation. experiment comes from Middle English experiment, from Old French esperiment (French expérience), from Latin experimentum (“experience, attempt, experiment”), from experior (“to experience, to attempt”), itself from ex + perior, in turn from Proto-Indo-European per-.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA