science

Meanings

Noun

• A particular discipline or branch of learning, especially one dealing with measurable or systematic principles rather than intuition or natural ability.
• Specifically the natural sciences.
• Knowledge gained through study or practice; mastery of a particular discipline or area.
• The fact of knowing something; knowledge or understanding of a truth.
• The collective discipline of study or learning acquired through the scientific method; the sum of knowledge gained from such methods and discipline.
• Knowledge derived from scientific disciplines, scientific method, or any systematic effort.
• The scientific community.
• Synonym of sweet science

Verb

• To cause to become versed in science; to make skilled; to instruct.
• To use science to solve a problem.

Related

Similar words

• sci
• sci.

Narrower meaning words

• agriscience
• antiscience
• applied science
• archival science
• behavioral science
• bionanoscience
• bioscience
• citizen science
• cognitive science
• computer science
• crank science
• creation science
• cyberscience
• data science
• dismal science
• Earth science
• environmental science
• ethnoscience
• exact science
• forensic science
• formal science
• fundamental science
• geoscience
• geroscience
• glycoscience
• hard science
• information science
• junk science
• library science
• life science
• marine science
• nanoscience
• natural science
• neuroscience
• palaeoscience
• photoscience
• physical science
• planetary science
• political science
• popular science
• proscience
• protoscience
• pseudoscience
• pure science
• rocket science
• social science
• soft science
• soil science
• space science
• structural science
• superscience
• sweet science
• systems science
• technoscience

Origin

• From Middle English science, scyence, borrowed from Old French science, escience, from Latin scientia ("knowledge"), from sciens, the present participle stem of scire.
• See scion.