1. Experimental refers to the use of new methods or ideas, that is, they have not been previously applied or accepted.
2. That which is favored from scientific methodologies in the search for knowledge or conclusion.
Etymology: Configured from experiment, by the Latin experimentumregarding the verb I experiencedas far as ‘try’, ‘procure’, by case, governed by the prefix ex-which attributes a sense of separation, distance, departure, and peritus, from ‘expert’, within the framework of something ‘proven’; followed by the suffix -al, depending on the adjective with associative property.
Grammatical category: Adjective.
in syllables: ex-pe-ri-men-tal.
Experimental
A situation, object or phenomenon is qualified as experimental as long as it is understood as the result of a test that seeks to vary the normal parameters for such an element or experience and that has not yet been officially established as a new element. An experiment always involves testing and countertesting in order to obtain new solutions, possibilities and elements that can be applied to certain situations. In this way, experimental will be everything that is created as a search.
Normally, the term experimental is applied to all the techniques, practices and theories that are created with the aim of obtaining new and, especially, different results to those that are already known. Experimental supposes the development of those experiments that are applied to each discipline or area of work and whose purpose is the search for alternatives. Many times, when something is experimental, it can end up being approved and accepted as official, but many other times the results are not as expected, therefore experimentation must continue.
We can say that today the term experimental has a preferential application to some disciplines such as art. In this sense, music, theatre, painting, dance and experimental cinema are all forms of artistic representation that do not follow the parameters known for each of them and that therefore seek to establish new characteristics. In general, these new features are more lighthearted, unstructured and sometimes even shocking or highly provocative.
At the same time, scientific disciplines that are related to the human being, such as psychology, sociology, communication, cultural studies or anthropology have also developed experimental positions and theories that, ultimately, are nothing more than different forms of face the problem as it has been done traditionally. These possibilities have as main objective to find other ways of understanding their respective objects of study.
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