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EXPERIMENTER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A research worker who conducts experiments
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("experimenter" is a kind of...):
investigator; research worker; researcher (a scientist who devotes himself to doing research)
Derivation:
experiment (to conduct a test or investigation)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A person who enjoys testing innovative ideas
Example:
she was an experimenter in new forms of poetry
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("experimenter" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "experimenter"):
tinker; tinkerer (a person who enjoys fixing and experimenting with machines and their parts)
