Control Experiment

Definition: Control Experiment

Control Experiment

Noun

1. An experiment designed to control for variables affecting the results of another experiment.

Commercial Usage: Control Experiment

Domain	Title
Books	Automating Electric Utility Distribution Systems: The Athens Automation and Control Experiment (Prentice Hall Advanced Reference Series) (reference) Eaton Stanley and the Mind Control Experiment (Adler, David A. Eaton Stanley Adventure.) (reference) (more book examples)
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Specialty Definition: Control experiment

A control experiment is an experiment where the variable that is being investigated is kept constant. It acts as a comparison for the actual experiment . For example, suppose a scientist wishes to investigate the saying "Boys don't make passes at girls who wear glasses" He might take a girl who wears glasses, sit her at a bar on her own and see if any boys do in fact make a pass at her. Now he might well find that no boy did make a pass at her, but he can't be sure that the reason was that she was wearing glasses. She could just be incredibly ugly.

So the scientist sets up a control experiment. He puts the same girl, in the same bar, on the same day of the week, but this time she is not wearing glasses. Now he can compare the results of this experiment with that of the previous one and come to a meaningful conclusion.

Modern Translation: Control Experiment

Language		Translations for "control experiment"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		kontrollversuch (control assay). (various references)

Pig Latin		ontrolcay experimentay

Russian		контрольный опыт (check experiment). (various references)
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Misspellings: Control Experiment

Misspellings
	"Control Experiment" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: control experment. (additional references)
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Anagrams: Control Experiment

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	Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-i-l-m-n-n-o-o-p-r-r-t-t-x"
	-4 letters: interelectron.
	-5 letters: exteroceptor, interoceptor.
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Control Experiment

Definition: Control Experiment