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  1. experiments

    An experiment is a procedure carried out to support or refute a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of something previously untried. Experiments provide insight into cause-and-effect by demonstrating what outcome occurs when a particular factor is manipulated. Experiments vary greatly in goal and scale but always rely on repeatable procedure and logical analysis of the results. There also exist natural experimental studies. A child may carry out basic experiments to understand how things fall to the ground, while teams of scientists may take years of systematic investigation to advance their understanding of a phenomenon. Experiments and other types of hands-on activities are very important to student learning in the science classroom. Experiments can raise test scores and help a student become more engaged and interested in the material they are learning, especially when used over time. Experiments can vary from personal and informal natural comparisons (e.g. tasting a range of chocolates to find a favorite), to highly controlled (e.g. tests requiring complex apparatus overseen by many scientists that hope to discover information about subatomic particles). Uses of experiments vary considerably between the natural and human sciences. Experiments typically include controls, which are designed to minimize the effects of variables other than the single independent variable. This increases the reliability of the results, often through a comparison between control measurements and the other measurements. Scientific controls are a part of the scientific method. Ideally, all variables in an experiment are controlled (accounted for by the control measurements) and none are uncontrolled. In such an experiment, if all controls work as expected, it is possible to conclude that the experiment works as intended, and that results are due to the effect of the tested variables.

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  1. experiments

    The trials or applications of any kind of military machines in order to ascertain their practical qualities and uses.

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    Rank popularity for the word 'experiments' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3295

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of experiments in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of experiments in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of experiments in a Sentence

  1. Kailasavadivoo Sivan:

    We want our space station to be very small and it'll will be used to carry out microgravity experiments.

  2. Vande Hei:

    There are scientiststhat put a lot of thought into what experiments theywant to get done. They'redoing the data gathering and the data analysis and writing papers. My job is to facilitate if those things work when it's up there, i need to make sure that they have the resources they need. If something needs to be troubleshot, I'll help out with the troubleshooting.

  3. John Baines:

    One would really have to do the same experiments in New York City and in the countryside to have a direct comparison.

  4. Woo Jong-il:

    North Korea has nuclear weapons and are doing experiments despite the entire world’s opposition, russia, America, China, they all have it, and even North Korea, a small country in deep poverty has North Korea, so why are n’t we allowed to have it ?

  5. Khadija Abraham:

    Experiments show that these rats can detect a sample with TB parasites in a second and evidence has shown that they are able to sniff out even those with very minimal parasites.

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