10 letters · 21 points in Scrabble
noun the act of conducting a controlled test or investigation
noun the testing of an idea
noun a venture at something new or different
originFrom Middle English experiment, from Old French esperiment (French expérience), from Latin experimentum (“experience, attempt, experiment”), from experior (“to experience, to attempt”), itself from ex + *perior, in turn from Proto-Indo-European *per-.
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