Definitions for science

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science sci·ence

Spelling: [sahy-uh ns]

IPA: /ˈsaɪ əns/

Science is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 83 anagrams from letters in science (cceeins).

Definitions for science

noun

1. a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws:
2. systematic knowledge of the physical or material world gained through observation and experimentation.
3. any of the branches of natural or physical science.
4. systematized knowledge in general.
5. knowledge, as of facts or principles; knowledge gained by systematic study.
6. a particular branch of knowledge.
7. skill, especially reflecting a precise application of facts or principles; proficiency.
8. a specialized dictionary covering terms in the life, earth, and physical sciences, such as the online Science Dictionary on Dictionary.com. A science dictionary includes many technical terms with precise, specialized meanings—terms not normally found in general dictionaries—making it an invaluable resource for students and professionals in scientific fields.

Origin of science

1300-50; Middle English Middle French Latin scientia knowledge, equivalent to scient- (stem of sciēns), present participle of scīre to know + -ia -ia

Examples for science

I crammed your science into the story because it's good advertising.

Has she been doomed by the science of 2014 to a life of sexual misery?

“We talked about the science the whole time the other day,” Krauss told The Daily Beast in a phone interview.

Great resources were devoted to the science of air crash investigation.

We have made enormous strides in science and industry and agriculture.

Citizens, perhaps, need to feel like they can communicate something to science.

science has done wonders toward the elimination of such fears.

science imitates nature as researchers dream up robotic dogs, cheetahs, sharks and even cockroaches.

In public health the discoveries of science have opened a new era.

It means the "science of the sound which is made by our speech."