based on new ideas, forms or methods that are used to find out what effect they have 以实验（或试验）为基础的；实验性的；试验性的 The school's experimental teaching methods include letting the children decide what to study. 学校的实验教学方法包括让孩子们决定学什么。 experimental theatre/art/music 实验戏剧／艺术／音乐 The equipment is still at the experimental stage. 这种设备仍处于试验阶段。 Doctors stress that this kind of treatment is still experimental. 医生强调说这仍是一种试验性的治疗方法。
Extra ExamplesThese techniques are still highly experimental. 这些技术仍然是高度实验性的。 Actors and audience worked together to create three pieces of experimental theatre. 演员和观众一起创作了三部实验戏剧。
connected with scientific experiments 科学实验的；科学试验的 experimental conditions/data/evidence 实验环境／数据／证据 experimental physics 实验物理学
Word Originlate 15th cent. (in the sense ‘having personal experience’, also ‘experienced, observed’): from medieval Latin experimentalis, from Latin experimentum, from experiri ‘try’.