OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 25363

trial and error

Meanings (ES + gloss)
ensayo y error • experimentación • probatura y error • prueba y error • tanteo
The process of finding a solution to a problem by trying many possible solutions and learning from mistakes until success is attained.
Navigating by trial and error may get you there eventually, but using a map is faster.
Trial and error was a big part of the process: "We need to fail down here so we don't fail up there," [Neil] Armstrong insists, though even some of the mistakes and malfunctions at…
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