single-blind
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.47 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Describing an experiment (usually medical) in which some information which might influence the trial is withheld from particular participants until the experiment is complete. Most commonly, information about treatment groups is withheld from subjects, but not the administrators.
Example Sentences
- "By definition, a single-blind study is the one in which either the patient or investigator is blind to the assignment of the patient. In practice, a single-blind trial is referred to as a trial in which only the patient is unaware of his or her treatment assignment."
Inflected Forms
single blind (alternative)