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trialanderror (usuallyuncountable,pluraltrials and errors)
- The process of finding a solution to a problem by trying many possible solutions and learning from mistakes until success is attained.
Navigating bytrial and error may get you there eventually, but using a map is faster.
2018 October 9, A. A. Dowd, “The Star and Director ofLa La Land Reunite forFirst Man’s Spectacular Trip to the Moon”, inThe A.V. Club[1], archived fromthe original on16 June 2020: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 ground level cause devastating casualties.
solution by learning from mistakes
- Arabic:التَّجْرِبَة وَالْخَطَأ(at-tajriba(t) wālḵaṭaʔ)
- Catalan:prova i error,assaig i error,tempteig (ca) m,tanteig (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:嘗試錯誤 /尝试错误(chángshì cuòwù)
- Dutch:trial-and-error (nl) m
- Finnish:yritys ja erehdys
- French:tâtonnement (fr)
- German:trial and error (de),Versuch und Irrtum
- Hebrew:נִסּוּי וּטְעִיָּה (he)(nisúy ute'iyá)
- Hungarian:próbálgatás (hu),próbálkozás (hu),kísérletezés (hu)
- Italian:prove ed errori,tentativi ed errori
- Japanese:試行錯誤 (ja)(しこうさくご, shikō sakugo)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:prøving og feiling
- Nynorsk:prøving og feiling
- Persian:آزمون و خطا (fa)(âzmun-o-xatâ),سعی و خطا(sa'y-o-xatâ)
- Polish:metoda prób i błędów f
- Portuguese:tentativa e erro
- Russian:ме́тод проб и оши́бок m(métod prob i ošíbok),ме́тод ты́ка (ru)(métod týka)(coll.)
- Spanish:ensayo y error,tanteo (es) m,experimentación f,probatura y error
- Tagalog:pagsubok (tl)at (tl)pagkakamali,babaso
- Thai:ลองผิดลองถูก(long phit long thuk)
- Vietnamese:phương pháp thử và sai
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