Term: trial and error: experimenting until a solution is found
Candidate hypernym: event: something that happens at a given place and time → 1
Candidate hypernym: investigator: someone who investigates → 0
Candidate hypernym: occam's razor: the principle that entities should not be multiplied needlessly; the simplest of two competing theories is to be preferred → 0
Candidate hypernym: pinkroot: a fungal disease of onions → 0
Candidate hypernym: tory: an American who favored the British side during the American Revolution → 0
Candidate hypernym: road: a way or means to achieve something → 0
Candidate hypernym: church roll: a list of the members of church → 0
Candidate hypernym: nerve compression: harmful pressure on a nerve (especially in nerves that pass over rigid prominences); causes nerve damage and muscle weakness → 0
Candidate hypernym: cholelithotomy: removal of gallstone through an incision in the gallbladder → 0
Candidate hypernym: whizbang: a firecracker that (like the whizbang shell) makes a whizzing sound followed by a loud explosion → 0
Candidate hypernym: real matrix: a matrix whose elements are all real numbers → 0