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control experiment
noun
plural control experiments
: an experiment in which all variable factors have been kept constant and which is used as a standard of comparison to the experimental component in a controlled experiment
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The lab uses the microbes to study what happens to DNA during cell division, but even in the control experiments, none of the yeast survived.
—Bymolly Herring, science.org, 31 July 2024
In a control experiment using OpenAI’s GPT-2 text generator first released in 2019 to teach GPT-4, the more recent system became less capable and similar to the inferior system.
—Will Knight, WIRED, 14 Dec. 2023
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First Known Use
1848, in the meaning defined above
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“Control experiment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/control%20experiment. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.
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control experiment
noun
: an experiment in which all variable factors have been kept constant and which is used as a standard of comparison to the experiment component in a controlled experiment
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