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empirical definition
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Grep of noun empirical empirical formula empirical research Overview of adj empirical The adj empirical has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts) 1. (4) empirical -- (derived from experiment and observation rather than theory; "an empirical basis for an ethical theory"; "empirical laws"; "empirical data"; "an empirical treatment of a disease about which little is known") Antonyms of adj empirical 1 sense of empirical Sense 1 empirical (vs. theoretical) theoretical (vs. empirical), theoretic => abstractive => a priori => conjectural, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious => hypothetical, hypothetic => notional, speculative => metaphysical => theory-based Similarity of adj empirical 1 sense of empirical Sense 1 empirical (vs. theoretical) => a posteriori => confirmable, verifiable, falsifiable => experiential, existential => experimental, data-based, observational => experimental, model(postnominal), pilot(postnominal), test(postnominal), trial(postnominal) => semiempirical => trial-and-error Attributes of adj empirical Familiarity of adj empirical empirical used as an adjective is very rare (polysemy count = 1) Grep of adj empirical empirical semiempirical Overview of adj empirical The adj empirical has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts) 1. (4) empirical -- (derived from experiment and observation rather than theory; "an empirical basis for an ethical theory"; "empirical laws"; "empirical data"; "an empirical treatment of a disease about which little is known")
empirical definition
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