experiment

Japanese: experiment
experiment

...Therefore, in order to verify a hypothesis that if we do this, a certain thing will happen, we perform operations to cause a phenomenon after simplifying the conditions as much as possible, such as keeping external conditions constant or preventing external disturbances. In this way, operations that artificially create special conditions and limit the number of conditions to be taken into consideration as much as possible, and then examine the relationship between input and output "to verify a hypothesis," are called "experiments." Similarly, operations that artificially simplify conditions to cause a phenomenon and "show things that are already known so that they can be seen with the naked eye" are also called experiments. ...

*Some terminology explanations that mention "experiment" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…そこで,こうすればこうなるであろうという仮説を確かめるために,外的条件を一定にするとか,外乱が入らないようにするなど,できるだけ条件を簡単化したうえで現象を起こさせるという操作を行う。このように,人為的に特別の条件をつくり,考慮に入れるべき条件の数をできるだけ限定したうえで〈仮説を検証するため〉にインプットとアウトプットとの関係を調べる操作を〈実験experiment〉と呼ぶのである。同様に人為的に条件を簡単化して現象を起こさせるのであるが,すでにわかっていることを〈目で見てわかるように示すため〉の操作も実験と呼ばれている。…

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