Science
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English
Etymology
From Latin scientia, knowledge, noun formed from present participle sciens, knowing, from verb scire, know.
Noun
science, plural sciences
Sometimes uncountable
- The act and embodiment of performing the scientific method in order to discover empirically proven truth.
- Organized body of knowledge; any particular art or discipline
- A study of a particular discipline, usually involving measuring something, prevention, or causation.
- Those who carry out this study, referred to as a group
- "Modern science today tells us that...."
Related terms
- scientific
- scientifically
- scientist
- pseudoscience
- down to a science
Translations
- Breton: skiant f -où pl
- Catalan: ciència f (ca)
- Czech: věda f
- Dutch: wetenschap f
- Estonian: teadus
- Finnish: tiede
- French: science f
- Frisian: wittenskip f
- German: Wissenschaft f (de)
- Greek: επιστήμη f (epistími)
- Italian: scienza f
- Japanese: 科学 (かがく, kagaku)
- Korean: Hanja: 학 (hag), 학문 (hag-mun), 과학 (gwa-hag)
- Latin: scientia f
- Lithuanian: mokslas m (2)
- Norwegian: vitenskap m
- Persian: دانش (danesh)
- Polish: nauka f
- Romanian: ştiinţă f
- Slovak: veda f
- Spanish: ciencia f
- Swedish: vetenskap c
- Tagalog: agham, siyensya
French
science f
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