noun
Meaning 1
A person who experiments.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
experimenter
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ɪ.mɛn.tə/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mɛn.tə/
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Canada, General-American: /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mɛn.tɚ/
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Australian: /ɪkˈspeɹ.ɪ.men.tə/
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Australian: /ɪkˈspeɹ.ə.men.tə/
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CMU ARPABET: IH0 K S P EH1 R AH0 M EH2 N T ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
a research worker who conducts experiments
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: research worker, researcher, investigator
noun
Meaning 3
a person who enjoys testing innovative ideas
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- she was an experimenter in new forms of poetry
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
Narrower terms: tinker, tinkerer
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English experiment Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English experimenter From experiment + -er.
Across languages
Translations
25 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: փորձարար (pʻorjarar) — person who experiments
- Catalan: experimentador — person who experiments
- Catalan: experimentadora — person who experiments
- Czech: experimentátor — person who experiments
- Dutch: experimenteerder — person who experiments
- Finnish: kokeilija — person who experiments
- French: expérimentateur — person who experiments
- French: expérimentatrice — person who experiments
- German: Experimentator — person who experiments
- German: Experimentatorin — person who experiments
- Greek: πειραματιστής (peiramatistís) — person who experiments
- Italian: sperimentatore — person who experiments
- Italian: sperimentatrice — person who experiments
- Polish: eksperymentator — person who experiments
- Polish: eksperymentatorka — person who experiments
- Portuguese: experimentador — person who experiments
- Portuguese: experimentadora — person who experiments
- Romanian: experimentator — person who experiments
- Romanian: experimentatoare — person who experiments
- Russian: эксперимента́тор (eksperimentátor) — person who experiments
- Russian: экспериментаторша (eksperimentatorša) — person who experiments
- Spanish: experimentador — person who experiments
- Spanish: experimentadora — person who experiments
- Swedish: experimentator — person who experiments
- Swedish: försöksledare — person who experiments