pilot experiment

A 'small pilot experiment' has so far detected no side effects.

If pilot experiments are successful, maybe the environmentalists will be clamoring for their own style of offshore drilling.

The frequency of caffeine withdrawal in a population-based survey and in a controlled, blinded pilot experiment.

By the late 1940's, he had helped persuade the Army to carry out "pilot experiments on a fairly large scale" of his radioactive aerosol idea.

The experiments reported in Crystal (1969), chapter 7, are only small-scale pilot experiments.

The bank announced that as a pilot experiment, the entire branch would be upgraded to a "premium" branch.

Determination of the recovery may be time-consuming and may require additional subjects or pilot experiments.

This was a pilot experiment, not done under fully rigorous conditions.

Usually, one or more pilot experiments are conducted to gain insights for design of the clinical trial to follow.

The depth of sequencing required for specific applications can be extrapolated from a pilot experiment.