scientific
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
scientific/sʌɪənˈtɪfɪk/
▶adjective
- 1 relating to or based on science.
- 2 systematic; methodical.
– derivatives
scientifically adverb,
scientificity noun.
scientifically adverb,
scientificity noun.
– origin C16: from Fr. scientifique or late L. scientificus ‘producing knowledge’, from scientia (see science).
'scientific' also found in these Oxford entries:
Algol
- anthropometry
- antivivisection
- archaeometry
- architectonic
- art
- artefact
- Asiatic
- Athenaeum
- behaviouralism
- behavioural science
- bio-
- biology
- boffin
- botanic garden
- botany
- climatology
- community
- complementary medicine
- conchology
- conjecture
- craniology
- creation science
- criminology
- data
- dendrology
- discover
- eminent
- engineering
- ethnography
- experiment
- experimental
- experimental psychology
- fieldcraft
- forensic
- Fortran
- gerontology
- glyptography
- -ite
- laboratory
- law
- limb
- linguistics
- malariology
- metrology
- microbiology
- mineralogy
- miracle
- mission
- modern Latin
