Experimenter
[ɪk'spɛrə,mɛntɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a research worker who conducts experiments.
(noun.) a person who enjoys testing innovative ideas; 'she was an experimenter in new forms of poetry'.
Editor: Milton--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who makes experiments; one skilled in experiments.
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Examples
- There is the man, he wants to know what they mean by it, he continually asks the question why, he is the great experimenter among great inventors. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- For on e thing, the scientific hypothesis is necessary to the experimenter. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Another experimenter, Dumont, made use of a single large plate and a great number of lenses which were successively exposed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He was the Master Experimenter. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He directs the experimenter, for example, to take a piece of loadstone of convenient size and turn it o n a lathe to the form of a ball. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I believe that Mr. Edison's success as an experimenter was, to a large extent, due to this happy view of all experiments. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A mathematician and experimenter himself, he had a genius for eliciting discussion and research by means o f adroit questions. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- All his assistants agree that Edison is the most patient, tireless experimenter that could be conceived of. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Leaving the main building with its corps of busy experimenters, and coming out into the spacious yard, one notes the four long single-story brick structures mentioned above. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Copeland, two Californian experimenters, are credited with the next known effort to produce a two-wheeler which would travel by its own power. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- These will be found in the following extracts from one of the note-books, and consist of Edison's instructions to be carried out in detail by his experimenters: Take, say, 25 lbs. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The next morning I was summoned before him, and told that what the company wanted was operators, not experimenters. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- With a little handful of selected experimenters gathered about him, Edison settled down to one of his characteristic struggles for supremacy. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It may easily be believed that the term subdivision was a misleading one to these early experimenters. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- At midnight we had lunch brought in and served at a long table at which the experimenters sat down. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Still there have been intelligent experimenters in this field, and it is one of much promise for further research. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The men got in the habit of plaguing him; and, finally, one day he said to the assembled experimenters in the top room of the laboratory: 'The next man that does it, I will kill him. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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