Experiment vs Methodology - What's the difference?
experiment | methodology |
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:
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):
(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:
The study of methods used in a field.
(proscribed) A collection of methods, practices, procedures and rules used by those who work in some field.
The implementation of such methods etc.
As nouns the difference between experiment and methodology
is that experiment is 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 while methodology is the study of methods used in a field.As a verb experiment
is to conduct an experiment.experiment
English
(wikipedia experiment)Noun
(en noun)- Pilot [...] Vpon his card and compas firmes his eye, / The maisters of his long experiment , / And to them does the steddy helme apply [...].
Verb
(en verb)- The Earth, the which may have carried us about perpetually ... without our being ever able to experiment its rest.
- Til they had experimented whiche was trewe, and who knewe most.