based on new ideas, forms or methods that are used to find out what effect they have 以實驗（或試驗）爲基礎的；實驗性的；試驗性的 The school's experimental teaching methods include letting the children decide what to study. 學校的實驗教學方法包括讓孩子們決定學什麽。 experimental theatre/art/music 實驗戲劇／藝術／音樂 The equipment is still at the experimental stage. 這種設備仍處於試驗階段。 Doctors stress that this kind of treatment is still experimental. 醫生強調說這仍是一種試驗性的治療方法。
Extra ExamplesThese techniques are still highly experimental. 這些技術仍然是高度實驗性的。 Actors and audience worked together to create three pieces of experimental theatre. 演員和觀衆一起創作了三部實驗戲劇。
connected with scientific experiments 科學實驗的；科學試驗的 experimental conditions/data/evidence 實驗環境／數據／證據 experimental physics 實驗物理學
Word Originlate 15th cent. (in the sense ‘having personal experience’, also ‘experienced, observed’): from medieval Latin experimentalis, from Latin experimentum, from experiri ‘try’.