Science

  • 41science — n. 1) to advance, foster, promote science 2) an exact science 3) applied; basic; behavioral; domestic; information; library; linguistic; military; natural; naval; physical; political; popular; social; space science * * * [ saɪəns] basic… …

    Combinatory dictionary

  • 42science —    Scientific activity in Spain has traditionally suffered from chronic under resourcing, as well as from the tendency to regard universities as primarily teaching, rather than research institutions. Since the mid 1980s, however, there has been a …

    Encyclopedia of contemporary Spanish culture

  • 43science —    The modern meaning of science is something like a discipline that seeks a programmatic, ordered investigation into the operations of the natural world leading to the discovery of laws of nature and the consequent ability to predict the… …

    Christian Philosophy

  • 44science — n. 1 a branch of knowledge conducted on objective principles involving the systematized observation of and experiment with phenomena, esp. concerned with the material and functions of the physical universe (see also natural science). 2 a… …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 45science — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French, from Latin scientia, from scient , sciens having knowledge, from present participle of scire to know; perhaps akin to Sanskrit chyati he cuts off, Latin scindere to split more at shed Date: 14th… …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 46Science —    Byzantine science was, for the most part, unoriginal. It depended heavily on ancient science, which was revered, copied, and commented on. Commentators could be critical in their appraisals. For example, John Philoponos (q.v.) attacked… …

    Historical dictionary of Byzantium

  • 47science — Synonyms and related words: academic discipline, academic specialty, applied science, area, arena, art, body of knowledge, branch, concern, craft, department of knowledge, discipline, domain, electrobiology, electrochemistry, electrokinetics,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 48Science (ep) — Infobox Single | Name = Science Artist = Disco Inferno Released = 1991 Recorded = UK Genre = Experimental rock Length = 20:57 Label = Producer = Reviews = Last single = Entertainment/Arc in Round (1990, single) This single = Science (1991,… …

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  • 49science — [14] Etymologically, science simply means ‘knowledge’, for it comes via Old French science from Latin scientia, a noun formed from the present participle of the verb scīre ‘know’. It early on passed via ‘knowledge gained by study’ to a… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 50science — [14] Etymologically, science simply means ‘knowledge’, for it comes via Old French science from Latin scientia, a noun formed from the present participle of the verb scīre ‘know’. It early on passed via ‘knowledge gained by study’ to a… …

    Word origins