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Examination vs Experiment - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between examination and experiment

is that examination is the act of examining while experiment is experiment.

examination

English

(wikipedia examination)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of examining.
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    • , title= Welcome to the plastisphere , passage=[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].}}
  • Particularly, an inspection by a medical professional to establish the extent and nature of any sickness or injury.
  • A formal test involving answering written or oral questions with no or limited access to text books or the like.

    • Derived terms

    * * bar examination * clinical examination * cross-examination * cross examination * direct examination * exam * examination-in-chief * final examination * physical examination * re-examination * self-examination

    Related terms

    * examine

    experiment

    English

    (wikipedia experiment)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • (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 [...].

    Related terms

    * experimental

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To conduct an experiment.
  • (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.
  • (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

    References

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