scientific experiment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofscientificandexperiment
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scientific
adjective
uk/ˌsaɪənˈtɪf.ɪk/us/ˌsaɪənˈtɪf.ɪk/
relating to science, or using the organized methods ...
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experiment
noun[C or U]
uk/ɪkˈsper.ɪ.mənt/us/ɪkˈsper.ə.mənt/
a test done in order to learn something or to discover if something works or ...
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(Definition ofscientificandexperimentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The word permitted a nonscientific psychological preoccupation to reappear as the subject ofscientificexperiment.
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It can indeed be argued that he sawscientificexperimentas a form of religious experience.
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This is indeed the simple logic of a controlledscientificexperiment.
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Was it through the modern methods of humanist scholarship, antiquarianism andscientificexperiment?
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Can the full implications of ascientificexperimenteven be known at the outset?
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In ascientificexperimentthe object world responds to questions put and trials made upon it - the natural world 'speaks'.
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The audience was entertained while simultaneously empowered to act as witnesses to what balloonists presented as ascientificexperiment.
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It was to be a glorifiedscientificexperiment.
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The future of this work could culminate in sonifying real particle systems instead of simulated ones; thus, fromscientificexperimentcomes musical composition.
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Instead, it was clear that the goal was to fund ascientificexperimentof national importance rather than pay for a good, a service, or an entertainment.
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This metaphor blurs the distinctions between science and art, wherescientificexperimentbecomes musical composition, and exploring a musical idea involves playing with particle system dynamics.
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Is thatscientificexperiment, that testing of the drug, not of the first importance to humanity?
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The whole of this advice is based on ascientificexperimentwhich some have challenged.
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The money is simply not available for that kind of trulyscientificexperiment.
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Secondly, as with anyscientificexperiment, the variables must be kept to a minimum.
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They are a particular category wherescientificexperimentrather than flora or fauna requires attention.
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Otherwise, although it may be a very interestingscientificexperiment, it is not worth anything to the nation.
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It supports, for example, young people who may require only £5,000 to conduct a short-termscientificexperiment.
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It was that he wished an importantscientificexperimentto be carried on and thoroughly tested out.
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The project was modeled after ascientificexperiment.
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We have here a very interesting opportunity in which to carry out the sort ofscientificexperimentthat people have been discussing.
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This is no longer to be the conduct of ascientificexperiment: this is to be an economic investment of public cash in a farm.
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Statistics on the number of animals destroyed as a result of, or after the conclusion of,scientificexperimentor testing, are not currently collected.
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Most models of scientific change rely on new data produced byscientificexperiment.
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This was later explained as being due to ascientificexperimentin teleportation.
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