Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who makes experiments; one who practises experimentation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who makes experiments, especially one who likes to experiment; an experimenter.
- noun One who relies primarily on experimentation and the evidence of one's own senses; an empiricist; -- contrasted with
theoretician ordogmatist .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who performs
experiments . - noun A person who values the results of experiments over
theory . - noun A person who seeks or enjoys new experiences.
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Examples
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The modern experimentalist is often more manager than physicist.
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The second was Polycarp Kusch, a young experimentalist from the Middle West, with large angular movements and a loud assertive voice.
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The second was Polycarp Kusch, a young experimentalist from the Middle West, with large angular movements and a loud assertive voice.
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He was a theorist as well as a talented experimentalist, which is very rare.
MIRROR KITTEH - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Mostly your identified interests above match my own and, honestly, I believe Castronova's as well: "study the real world"--yep; "experimentalist"--me too
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Sandor Katz is an author, foodie, and fermentation "experimentalist" and enthusiast.
TreeHugger 2009
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"experimentalist" malarky and complain that it would have worked better as a bunch of individual stories, novellas, novels or whatever, not just failing to see the purpose of the structure but projecting their own imagined purpose onto it.
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Walker was an experimentalist and public lecturer on scientific subjects, who taught Shelley as a schoolboy.
Index of People 2009
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This idea is not totally new; turning "Cymbeline" into lore passed down through generations is a strategy that has been adopted by directors such as the great experimentalist Andrei Serban and outfits as highly regarded as the Royal Shakespeare Company.
'Cymbeline': A fairy tale without magic Peter Marks 2011
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In addition to a growing reputation as an experimentalist in organic chemistry, he brought with him an encyclopedic knowledge of physical and analytical chemistry.
Richard Kuhn and the Chemical Institute: Double Bonds and Biological Mechanisms 2010
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