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trial-and-error
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trial-and-error
  1. adj. trying out various means or theories until error is satisfactorily reduced or eliminated; "he argued that all learning is a trial-and-error process that resembles biological evolution"

  2. relating to solving problems by experience rather than theory; "they adopted a trial-and-error procedure"

Usage examples of "trial-and-error".

What Jimmy had seen was the next-to-end result of seven years of intensive trial-and-error research.

In moving up the scale of animal behavior we find that modification of behavior goes through the stages of (i) conditioning by circumstance, (z) conditioning after trial-and-error, and (3) conditioning after an etherealized trial-and-error.

Similarly, when the process of etherealized trial-and-error becomes as complicated as it is in the human mind, it may well be DO longer useful to attempt to interpret mental activity in behaviorist terms.

Our jump drives are more compact, after millennia of trial-and-error improvements.

Similarly, it's irrelevant—life having arisen from that randomness—to nonsapient organisms governed by simple tropisms and instincts generated in the trial-and-error process of mutation and natural selection.

Kill-codes usually have a penalty clause--to prevent trial-and-error guessing.

I'll have to use a mirror-reflection phaseometer and I'll need help to compute the trial-and-error readings.