empirical
Academic Word List, sublist 7.
About 23.86 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Pertaining to or based on experience, as opposed to theory.
The lengths were calculated according to the empirical rules of the trade.
- adjective Pertaining to, derived from, or testable by observations made using the physical senses or using instruments which extend the senses.
- adjective Verifiable by means of scientific experimentation.
demonstrable with empirical evidence
- noun A measurement or result achieved by empirical means.
Similar words
experiential existential a posteriori observational verifiable confirmable semiempirical experimental trial test
Often followed by
evidence research studies data and study analysis work results investigation
Word family
empiric empirically empiricism
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