experimentalist
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- noun
- /ɪkˌspɛrɪˈmɛntəlɪst/
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experimentalista
- The experimentalist presented groundbreaking findings that challenged established scientific theories.
- experimentalist and theorist
- experimentalists can create
- leading experimentalist
But the thing about the people that I found were experimentalists constantly asking questions.
- But the thing about the people that I found were experimentalists constantly asking questions.
- Troy is a theorist and he does weird stuff too, but he's not an experimentalist.
- And of course find your strengths to some people are very good experimentalist and they enjoy doing that.
Examples
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He was the greatest experimentalist of his age.
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The challenge is for experimentalists to learn how to probe the inner core of optically opaque bubbles.
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And so this made it easy as an experimentalist to kind of pick one over the other.
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OK, so as an experimentalist, I have to say we have no idea, right?
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So just as an experimentalist, you should, you should actually know what the scale is.
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We get a new director next year, a British experimentalist by the name of Mark Thompson.
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These are American experimentalists that totally reimagined the way music might be heard, might be composed.
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In this area of biomechanical engineering, Banerjee has distinguished himself as both a theoretician and an experimentalist.
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OK, so as Paola has told you, experimentalists have expressed cautious excitement about these results that Paola has been talking about.
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Springing from the work of Webern, Varese, Ives, and other experimentalists, the sixties produced several new musical developments.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
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2.7
A person who studies something carefully to find new information
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4.3
A person who creates new ideas or ways of doing things
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A person who tries new ways of doing things, often by testing them
How Experimental
Surface Forms
Morphology
experimentalist = experimental (transparent) = experiment + al + ist
Formed by adding the agentive suffix '-ist' to 'experimental' (which itself is 'experiment' + '-al'), so the meaning 'person who works with or does experiments' is directly derivable.
Etymology
Experimentalist comes from the word experiment, which goes back to the old Latin root experiri meaning 'to try'. The ending -ist means 'a person who does something', so an experimentalist is someone who 'tries' new ideas or methods, often in science or art.