experimentally

Variant of experimental

experimental definition

ex·peri·men·tal (ek sper′ə ment′'l, ik-; often, -spir′-)

adjective

  1. of or based on experience rather than on theory or authority
  2. based on, tested by, or having the nature of, experiment
  3. for the sake of experiment; designed to test
  4. tentative
  5. of or used for experiments

Etymology: ME < ML experimentalis: see experiment

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