Definition: This is the name for what is gathered through the general process of living, or for the process
itself.

Explanation:

Experience is the word used to denote both: the living process and the accumulation of knowledge, practice or, in general, learning as a result of lived situations.

Thus, when you goe through (live) a particular activity or situation it is said tha you had the experience.  In this case the experience refers to the process itself.

Also, when you have acquired knowledge, or developed skills product of what you have lived, that gathered knowledge, skills, learnings in general, are also named experience.

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