Investigation vs. Experiment

Investigationnoun

The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research, especially patient or thorough inquiry or examination

‘The investigation into the crime has led to various leads as well as plenty of dead ends.’; ‘Despite thorough investigation, the perpetrator of the attacks remains unknown.’;

Experimentnoun

A test under controlled conditions made to either demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy of something previously untried.

Investigationnoun

The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, esp. patient or thorough inquiry or examination; as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge, the moralist.

Experimentnoun

(obsolete) Experience, practical familiarity with something.

Investigationnoun

an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities;

‘there was a congressional probe into the scandal’;

Experimentverb

(intransitive) To conduct an experiment.

Investigationnoun

the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically

Experimentverb

To experience; to feel; to perceive; to detect.

Investigationnoun

the action of investigating something or someone; formal or systematic examination or research

‘he is under investigation for receiving illicit funds’;

Experimentverb

To test or ascertain by experiment; to try out; to make an experiment on.

Investigationnoun

a formal inquiry or systematic study

‘an investigation into fresh allegations of malpractice’; ‘a murder investigation’;

Experimentnoun

A trial or special observation, made to confirm or disprove something uncertain; esp., one under controlled conditions determined by the experimenter; an act or operation undertaken in order to discover some unknown principle or effect, or to test, establish, or illustrate some hypothesis, theory, or known truth; practical test; proof.

‘A political experiment can not be made in a laboratory, nor determined in a few hours.’;

Experimentnoun

Experience.

‘Adam, by sad experiment I knowHow little weight my words with thee can find.’;

Experimentverb

To make experiment; to operate by test or trial; - often with on, upon, or in, referring to the subject of an experiment; with, referring to the instrument; and by, referring to the means; as, to experiment upon electricity; he experimented in plowing with ponies, or by steam power.

Experimentverb

To try; to know, perceive, or prove, by trial or experience.

Experimentnoun

the act of conducting a controlled test or investigation

Experimentnoun

the testing of an idea;

‘it was an experiment in living’; ‘not all experimentation is done in laboratories’;

Experimentnoun

a venture at something new or different;

‘as an experiment he decided to grow a beard’;

Experimentverb

to conduct a test or investigation;

‘We are experimenting with the new drug in order to fight this disease’;

Experimentverb

try something new, as in order to gain experience;

‘Students experiment sexually’; ‘The composer experimented with a new style’;

Experiment

An experiment is a procedure carried out to support or refute a hypothesis. Experiments provide insight into cause-and-effect by demonstrating what outcome occurs when a particular factor is manipulated.