experimental vs operant

experimental

adj
  • Serving to be experimented upon; used in an experiment. 

  • Pertaining to or founded on experiment. 

  • Experiential, empirical. 

  • Serving as an experiment; serving to experiment. 

noun
  • The subject of an experiment. 

operant

adj
  • That operates to produce an effect. 

noun
  • Any of a class of behaviors that produce consequences by operating (i.e., acting) upon the environment. 

  • An operative person or thing. 

How often have the words experimental and operant occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )