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Pilot vs Experiment - What's the difference?

pilot | experiment |

As nouns the difference between pilot and experiment

is that pilot is a person who steers a ship, a helmsman while 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.

As verbs the difference between pilot and experiment

is that pilot is to control (an aircraft or watercraft) while experiment is to conduct an experiment.

As an adjective pilot

is made or used as a test or demonstration of capability. (pilot run, pilot plant.

pilot

English

(wikipedia pilot)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who steers a ship, a helmsman.
    • (Dryden)
  • A person who knows well the depths and currents of a harbor or coastal area, who is hired by a vessel to help navigate the harbor or coast.
  • An instrument for detecting the compass error.
  • (AU, road transport, informal) A pilot vehicle.
  • (AU, road transport) A person authorised to drive such a vehicle during an escort.
  • A guide or escort through an unknown or dangerous area.
  • * 1834 , , A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett , E. L. Cary and A. Hart, page 43:
    • So we mounted our horses, and put out for that town, under the direction of two friendly Creeks we had taken for pilots .
  • Something serving as a test or trial.
    • We would like to run a pilot in your facility before rolling out the program city-wide.
    The pilot plant showed the need for major process changes.
  • A person who is in charge of the controls of an aircraft.
  • A sample episode of a proposed TV series
  • (rail transport) A cowcatcher.
  • A pilot light.
  • One who flies a kite.
  • * 2003 , John P. Glaser, A Father's Collage , page 31:
    • Julia has become quite a good kite pilot . She has learned how to repeatedly buzz her father's head, coming within two feet, and not hitting him.

    Derived terms

    * autopilot * bush pilot * copilot * hangar pilot * Palm Pilot * pilot fish * pilot whale * test pilot

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Made or used as a test or demonstration of capability. (pilot run'', ''pilot plant )
  • Used to control or activate another device. (pilot light)
  • A vehicle to warn other road users of the presence of an oversize vehicle/combination. (pilot vehicle )
  • Used to indicate operation ("pilot lamp")

    • Derived terms

    * pilot experiment * pilot hole * pilot light * pilot version

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To control (an aircraft or watercraft).
  • To guide (a vessel) through coastal waters.
  • To test or have a preliminary trial of (an idea, a new product, etc.)

    • 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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