How to say "experimental" in Japanese
Choosing the right word
- 試験的しけんてきna-adjectiveCovers experimental in the sense of trial, provisional, or pilot: something done as a test to see how it works. Typical in scientific, technical, or policy contexts describing tentative trials.
- 経験的けいけんてきna-adjectiveCovers experimental in the scientific sense of empirical, based on observation or experience rather than theory. Used for experimental evidence, methods, or data in academic and scientific writing.
- prenominal modifierCovers experimental only in the arts sense of unconventional or underground, as in avant-garde film or theater. It is an abbreviation for "underground" and is not the word for experimental science.
Use 試験的 for trial/provisional experiments, 経験的 for empirical or experience-based work, and 「アングラ」 only for experimental underground art, never science.
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