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Meaning of experimentum crucis | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A "crucial experiment"; a conclusive test to decide between different hypotheses.

uncountable

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Examples

“What remained for me but to prove, by trial, that what might be perilous to other travellers was safe to me? The “experimentum crucis” was a visit to Al-Híjaz, at once the most difficult and the most dangerous point by which a European can enter Arabia.https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Personal_Narrative_of_a_Pilgrimage_to_Al_Madinah_and_Meccah/Volume_I”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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