science
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
science/ˈsʌɪəns/
▶noun
- 1 the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.
- 2 a systematically organized body of knowledge on any subject.
- 3 archaic knowledge.
– origin ME: from OFr., from L. scientia ‘knowledge’, from scire ‘know’.
'science' also found in these Oxford entries:
AAAS
- aerodynamics
- aeroelasticity
- aeronomy
- agriculture
- agriscience
- agrobiology
- agronomy
- algebra
- android
- anime
- anthropology
- astronautics
- astronomy
- audiology
- BA
- ballistics
- behavioural science
- biochemistry
- bioinformatics
- biophysics
- black bile
- BS
- BSc
- cartography
- chemistry
- choler
- Christian Science
- chronometry
- City Technology College
- cognitive science
- comparative
- computational linguistics
- computer science
- consilience
- cosmogony
- cosmography
- cosmology
- creation science
- crystallography
- cybernetics
- cyberpunk
- dismal
- domestic science
- droid
- DSc
- earthling
- earth science
- ectogenesis
- electro-optics
