different between experiment vs boundary

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

bound +? -ary, Old French, from Latin.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ba?nd?i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ba?nd??i/
• Rhymes: -a?nd?i

Noun

boundary (plural boundaries)

1. The dividing line or location between two areas.

   • So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

2. (figuratively, often in the plural) The bounds, confines, or limits between immaterial things (such as one’s comfort zone, privacy, or professional sphere and the realm beyond).

3. (cricket) An edge or line marking an edge of the playing field.
4. (cricket) An event whereby the ball is struck and either touches or passes over a boundary (with or without bouncing), usually resulting in an award of 4 (four) or 6 (six) runs respectively for the batting team.
5. (topology) (of a set) The set of points in the closure of a set ${\displaystyle S}$, not belonging to the interior of that set.

Derived terms

• Boundary County
• boundary rider
• boundary umpire

Related terms

• bound

Translations

See also

• border
• confine
• frontier
• fladry

Further reading

• boundary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• boundary in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.