[f. EXPERIMENT v. + -ATION. Cf. Fr. expérimentation.] The action or process of experimenting or making experiments; a series of experiments.
1675. Petty, Disc. Dupl. Proportion, 67. If the just length of any one Gun hath been well found by good Experimentation, then may also be known the length of every Gun.
a. 1734. North, Lives, III. 230. He was … resolved not to be a subject of the artist’s experimentations.
1862. R. H. Patterson, Ess. Hist. & Art, 78. Many things in science were deduced which only modern experimentation could establish.
1875. H. C. Wood, Therap. (1879), 47. This method of experimentation can throw but little light upon [etc.].
