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sci·ence (sī′əns)

noun

  1. Archaic the state or fact of knowledge; knowledge
  2. systematized knowledge derived from observation, study, and experimentation carried on in order to determine the nature or principles of what is being studied
  3. any specific branch of scientific knowledge, esp. one concerned with establishing and systematizing facts, principles, and methods, as by experiments and hypotheses the science of mathematics
    1. the systematized knowledge of nature and the physical world
    2. any branch of this
  5. skill based upon systematized training the science of cooking
  6. ☆ Christian Science

Etymology: OFr < L scientia < sciens, prp. of scire, to know, orig., to discern, distinguish < IE base *skei-, to cut, separate > sheath, shin, ship, ski, L scindere, to cut

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science

n.

  1. An organized body of knowledge

    classified information, department of learning, branch of knowledge, system of knowledge, body of fact; see also anthropology, archaeology, astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, cybernetics, geography, geology, mathematics, medicine 3, physics, physiology, psychology, social science, sociology, zoology for commonly recognized sciences.

  2. A highly developed skill

    craftsmanship, art, deftness; see ability 1, 2.


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science Usage Examples

Adjective modifier

  • social: Other teams in social sciences are also working on aging.

Noun used with modifier

  • earth: Students take core modules in biology, geography and earth sciences but the course also offers considerable choice through a range of module options.

Modifies a noun

  • fiction: Law is science fiction: part science, part fiction.

Noun used with modifier

  • rocket: Fire Plan Making a fire plan does not require rocket science.
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science quotes

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power and the human race commit suicide by blowing up the race.

-Adams, Henry Brooks

The student must remember, for his consolation†that his failures are almost as important to the cause of scienceand tothosewhofollow himinthesameroad, as his successes. It is much to know what we cannot do in any given directionöthe first step, indeed, toward the accomplishment of what we can do.

-Agassiz, (Jean) Louis (Rodolphe)

It is not in the outward and visible world of material life that the Celtic genius of Wales or Ireland can at this day hope to count for much; it is in the inward world of thought and science.What it has been, what is has done, what it will be or will do, as a matter of modern politics.

-Arnold, Matthew

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