different between experiment vs blicket

English

Etymology

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-.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?sp?.??.m?nt/, /?k?sp?.??.m?nt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?sp??.?.m?nt/, /?k?sp??.?.m?nt/
• Hyphenation: ex?per?i?ment

Noun

experiment (plural experiments)

1. A test under controlled conditions made to either demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy of something previously untried.
   • 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     South Korean officials announced last month that an experiment to create artificial rain did not provide the desired results.

2. (obsolete) Experience, practical familiarity with something.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:

     Pilot [...] Vpon his card and compas firmes his eye, / The maisters of his long experiment, / And to them does the steddy helme apply [...].

Derived terms

• sexperiment

Related terms

• experimental

Translations

Verb

experiment (third-person singular simple present experiments, present participle experimenting, simple past and past participle experimented)

1. (intransitive) To conduct an experiment.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To experience; to feel; to perceive; to detect.
   • 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):

     The Earth, the which may have carried us about perpetually ... without our being ever able to experiment its rest.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To test or ascertain by experiment; to try out; to make an experiment on.
   • 1481 William Caxton, The Mirrour of the World 1.5.22:

     Til they had experimented whiche was trewe, and who knewe most.

Derived terms

• experimenter

Translations

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “experiment”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin exper?mentum, attested from 1460.

Noun

experiment m (plural experiments)

1. experiment

Derived terms

• experimental
• experimentar

References

Further reading

• “experiment” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “experiment” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “experiment” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??ksp?r?m?nt]

Noun

experiment m

1. experiment

Synonyms

• pokus m

Related terms

• experimentovat
• experimentální

Further reading

• experiment in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• experiment in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

From Old French experiment, from Latin experimentum.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ex?pe?ri?ment

Noun

experiment n (plural experimenten, diminutive experimentje n)

1. experiment

Synonyms

• proef
• test

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: eksperimen

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin exper?mentum.

Noun

experiment m (plural experiments)

1. experiment

Related terms

• experimentar

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin experimentum

Noun

experiment n (plural experimente)

1. experiment

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin exper?mentum, attested from 1682.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ksp(?)r??m?nt/

Noun

experiment n

1. experiment

Declension

Related terms

• experimentell

References

English

Etymology

Introduced by Nancy Soja in her 1987 dissertation "Ontological Constraints on 2-Year-Olds' Induction of Word Meanings" from MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

The word was used after Soja by a variety of cognitive scientists, and has gained usage since 2000 in publications by David Sobel and Alison Gopnik of the Psychology Department of UC Berkeley.

Noun

blicket (plural blickets)

1. (philosophy) A type of novel object with certain properties that may be categorized by a human in certain experiments relating to causality and perception, e.g., triggering a "blicket detector" (a device that lights up and plays music).
   • 2012, Issues in Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine Research and Practice (page 1627)

     Later they were presented with the picture of a blicket along with the real object it depicted and asked to indicate the blicket. Many of the 24-, 18-, and even 15-month-olds indicated the real object as an instance of a blicket […]

German

Pronunciation

Verb

blicket

1. second-person plural subjunctive I of blicken