singular of experience points

(role-playing games) A system of points when a predetermined amount is accumulated by a player character, causes them to level up. This is one of the core mechanics of many role-playing games. Abbreviations: EXP or XP.

plural of thought experiment

A social psychology experiment performed by Stanley Milgram in 1963, measuring people's willingness to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience.

An experiment in parapsychology that attempts to gauge telepathic ability by putting a subject into sensory deprivation and afterwards asking him/her to identify an object that was observed by somebody else during that period.

plural of ganzfeld experiment

The process of inflating the middle ear by closing the mouth and nostrils, and blowing so as to puff out the cheeks.

(US) Prohibition

A table of mortality computed from the experience of one or more life insurance companies.

plural of experience table