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Exploration vs Experiment - What's the difference?

exploration | experiment |

As nouns the difference between exploration and experiment

is that exploration is the act of exploring while experiment is experiment.

exploration

English

Noun

(wikipedia exploration) (en noun)
  • The act of exploring
  • Notably penetrating]], or [[range, ranging over for purposes of (especially geographical) discovery
    • ''The exploration of 'unknown' areas often was the precursor to colonization.
  • A physical examination.

    • Related terms

    * exploratative * exploratory * explorer

    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

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