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experimentally
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
determine
▪ However, it can be calculated by application of Hess's law to three standard enthalpies which can be determined experimentally.
▪ Whether or not motion occurs is most precisely determined experimentally by its effect on the heat transfer.
▪ Probability distribution functions are sometimes determined experimentally, but much more frequently further average quantities are measured.
▪ It is given the symbol U. The absolute value of the internal energy of a system can not be determined experimentally.
▪ All three of these enthalpies can be determined experimentally by calorimetric methods.
▪ The relative molecular masses of non-volatile substances can be determined experimentally by colligative methods.
▪ The depression of freezing point can be determined experimentally using the apparatus shown in figure 6.38.
▪ Many reaction enthalpies can not be determined experimentally because the reactions can not be brought about in the laboratory.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Conceptually more complicated, but experimentally simpler.
▪ Everything was perfect except that when I came to train experimentally naive monkeys, I discovered that they did not like peanuts.
▪ However, it can be calculated by application of Hess's law to three standard enthalpies which can be determined experimentally.
▪ It also predicts a stress-superposition law which has been observed experimentally.
▪ Secondly, stimulation of capsaicin sensitive neurones in the stomach enhances the resistance of the gastric mucosa against experimentally imposed damage.
▪ She dropped a rock on its head experimentally.
▪ This treatment was used experimentally approximately 20 years ago, with mixed results.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Experimentally

Experimentally \Ex*per`i*men"tal*ly\, adv. By experiment; by experience or trial.
--J. S. Mill.

Wiktionary
experimentally

adv. in the manner of an experiment

WordNet
experimentally

adv. in an experimental fashion; "this can be experimentally determined" [syn: by experimentation, through an experiment]

Usage examples of "experimentally".

It was a heavy cast Ostran head, hafted with care, and as Bardel swung it experimentally the applause was general.

But skilled medical provers who have experimentally tested the toxical effects of the Dandelion plant have found it to produce, when taken in excess, troublesome indigestion, characterized by a tongue coated with a white skin which peels off in patches, leaving a raw surface, whilst the kidneys become unusually active, with profuse night sweats and an itching nettle rash.

With healthy provers, who have taken the Sea Holly experimentally in toxical doses of varying strength the sexual energies and instincts became always depressed.

There was marked muscle definition where there had been none before, and when I experimentally poked my flexed biceps and triceps, I was astounded to discover that they were iron hard.

But the effort has been well worth it: the calculations yield predictions about electrons that have been experimentally verified to an accuracy of better than one part in a billion.

By the late 1970s and early 1980s many of its predictions had been verified experimentally, and most particle physicists concluded that it was just a matter of time before the rest were confirmed as well.

Inoshiro flexed vis facial actuators experimentally, shearing off mulch and grime.

The formula relating the total radiant energy emitted by a blackbody to its temperature was found experimentally by Joseph Stefan in 1879 and derived theoretically by Ludwig Boltzmann in 1889.

Zoe flinched as she felt the man touch the distended lips of her vulva, then she shook her head in objection, sighing then groaning as he pulled experimentally on the tiny weighted chains that dangled from the clamps that were tight around her delicate folds of flesh.

If you throw a baseball, Newtonian and Einsteinian gravity can be used to predict where it will land, and the answers will be different, but the differences will be so slight that they are generally beyond our capacity to detect experimentally.

Experimentally, how do we look at the effects of shock and hypothermic arrest on the brain of a dog?

I have already hinted, in my account of the reductive steps the group employed, that a variety of experimentally or theoretically inconvenient processes that also occurred during the behaviour, such as a contribution of the peripheral nervous system, and some of the polysynaptic inputs onto the motor neuron, were dissected away and no longer taken into consideration.

She dropped her skirt to the floor and stepped slinkily around his desk to seat herself on his lap, hips wiggling experimentally.

Amsel sorted out the brown, took the big scissors from Solingen and made them twitter experimentally.

As long as there were sulfa pills in any drug store and they kept potent in spite of age, Ish saw no need to find out experimentally just how this sore throat would develop, if left untreated.