noun/verb · academic
experiment
UK/ɪkˈsperɪmənt/US/ɪkˈspɛrəmənt/ex·PER·i·ment
Band 4-5task2speaking
a scientific test done to learn or prove something
Examples
“They ran an experiment to test the new drug.”
“The experiment failed to produce consistent results.”
“We must control variables carefully in any experiment.”
Band 8 sentence
“The double-blind experiment revealed statistically significant differences between the control and experimental groups.”
Collocations
- conduct an experiment
- control variables
- experimental group
Word family
experiment noun/verbexperimental adjectiveexperimentally adverb
Common mistakes
do an experiment→conduct an experiment / run an experiment
experiment is failed→the experiment failed
Say it for a higher band
5test→6trial→7+experiment
Synonyms
trial
test
Easily confused
trial
“The clinical trial tested the vaccine on volunteers.”
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