{
    "term": "experimental",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "based on new ideas, forms or methods that are used to find out what effect they have",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The school's experimental teaching methods include letting the children decide what to study."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**experimental theatre/art/music**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The equipment is still at the experimental stage."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Doctors stress that this kind of treatment is still experimental."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These techniques are still highly experimental."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Actors and audience worked together to create three pieces of experimental theatre."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "connected with scientific experiments",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**experimental conditions/data/evidence**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "experimental physics"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Scientific research"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪkˌsperɪˈmentl/",
                "audio": "ex/experimental/experimental__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪkˌsperɪˈmentl/",
                "audio": "ex/experimental/experimental__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 15th cent. (in the sense ‘having personal experience’, also ‘experienced, observed’): from medieval Latin experimentalis, from Latin experimentum, from experiri ‘try’."
}