noun · academic
experiment
UK/ɪkˈsperɪmənt/US/ɪkˈsperəmənt/ex·PER·i·ment
Band 6-7task2speaking
a scientific test done to study or discover something
Examples
“The students designed an experiment to test the effects of light on plant growth.”
“Experimental results need to be reproducible to be credible.”
“Researchers conducted an experiment with a control group and a treatment group.”
Band 8 sentence
“To validate the hypothesis, the research team conducted a randomized controlled experiment with clear ethical approval.”
Collocations
- conduct an experiment
- scientific experiment
- experimental results
Word family
experiment noun / verbexperimental adjectiveexperimentation noun
Common mistakes
many experiment→many experiments
make an experiment→conduct/perform an experiment
Say it for a higher band
5test→6trial→7+experiment
Synonyms
test
Easily confused
test
“They ran several tests to check the water quality.”
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