Science
['saɪəns]
Definition
(noun.) a particular branch of scientific knowledge; 'the science of genetics'.
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Definition
(n.) Knowledge; knowledge of principles and causes; ascertained truth of facts.
(n.) Accumulated and established knowledge, which has been systematized and formulated with reference to the discovery of general truths or the operation of general laws; knowledge classified and made available in work, life, or the search for truth; comprehensive, profound, or philosophical knowledge.
(n.) Especially, such knowledge when it relates to the physical world and its phenomena, the nature, constitution, and forces of matter, the qualities and functions of living tissues, etc.; -- called also natural science, and physical science.
(n.) Any branch or department of systematized knowledge considered as a distinct field of investigation or object of study; as, the science of astronomy, of chemistry, or of mind.
(n.) Art, skill, or expertness, regarded as the result of knowledge of laws and principles.
(v. t.) To cause to become versed in science; to make skilled; to instruct.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Knowledge, information, learning.[2]. System of knowledge, body of knowledge, philosophical knowledge, knowledge of principles or general laws.[3]. Branch of knowledge.
Typist: Nelda
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Knowledge, Information, skill, experience, expertness, comprehension,understanding, investigation, truth
ANT:Ignorance, inexperience, Unfamiliarity, incomprehension, error, fallacy,empiricism, smattering, sciolism
Typist: Sonia
Definition
n. knowledge systematised: truth ascertained: pursuit of knowledge or truth for its own sake: knowledge arranged under general truths and principles: that which refers to abstract principles as distinguished from 'art:' pre-eminent skill: trade: a department of knowledge.—n. Scib′ile something capable of being known.—adjs. Scī′enced versed learned; Scī′ent knowing; Scien′tial (Milt.) producing science: skilful; Scientif′ic -al (obs.) producing or containing science: according to or versed in science: used in science: systematic: accurate.—adv. Scientif′ically.—ns. Scī′entism the view of scientists; Scī′entist one who studies science esp. natural science.—adjs. Scientis′tic.—adv. Scī′ently knowingly.—n. Scient′olism false science superficial knowledge.—Scientific frontier a term used by Lord Beaconsfield in 1878 in speaking of the rectification of the boundaries between India and Afghanistan meaning a frontier capable of being occupied and defended according to the requirements of the science of strategy in opposition to 'a hap-hazard frontier.'—Absolute science knowledge of things in themselves; Applied science when its laws are exemplified in dealing with concrete phenomena; Dismal science political economy; Gay science a medieval name for belles-lettres and poetry generally esp. amatory poetry; Inductive science (see Induct); Liberal science a science cultivated from love of knowledge without view to profit; Mental science mental philosophy psychology; Moral science ethics the science of right and wrong moral responsibility; Occult science a name applied to the physical sciences of the middle ages also to magic sorcery witchcraft &c.; Sanitary science (see Sanitary); The exact sciences the mathematical sciences; The science the art of boxing; The seven liberal sciences grammar logic rhetoric arithmetic music geometry and astronomy—these were the seven Terrestrial sciences as opposed to the seven Celestial sciences civil law Christian law practical theology devotional theology dogmatic theology mystic theology and polemical theology.
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Examples
- He made sundials, water clocks, and similar apparatus, a little last gleam of experimental science in the gathering ignorance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He has a clearer conception of the divisions of science and of their relation to the mind of man than was possible to the ancients. Plato. The Republic.
- It is a poor form of social service that would exhaust the resources of science and philanthropy to care for the former without making any special provision fo r the latter. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- We see again here, as in the case of Thales, th at the love of abstract thought, the pursuit of science as science, did not interfere with ultimate practical applications. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- When the science of static electricity was thus far developed, with a machine for generating it and a collector to receive it, many experiments followed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It is suggestive that among the Greeks, till the rise of conscious philosophy, the same word, techne, was used for art and science. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In the time of Harun Al-Rashid (800 A.D) and his son, the Caliphate of Bagdad was the center of Arab science. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Modern science uses the force of such exploding gases for the accomplishment of work, such as running of automobiles and launches. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Here and there a Hatchment, with the whole science of Heraldry in it, loomed down upon the street, like an Archbishop discoursing on Vanity. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It is no valid objection that science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin of life. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Whatever natural science may be for the specialist, for educational purposes it is knowledge of the conditions of human action. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The coincidence of the ideal of progress with the advance of science is not a mere coincidence. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It would not have been necessary for him to have been embalmed that length of time to have witnessed some great developments of his favorite science. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The principal Greek works on science had been translated into Syrian. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Since the supply is small, induce to begin this study youths of about eig hteen years of age who are already acquainted with the sciences required in a general education. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- In the mechanical arts, the sciences become methods of managing things so as to utilize their energies for recognized aims. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- No one expects the young to make original discoveries of just the same facts and principles as are embodied in the sciences of nature and man. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Philosophy, he says, is surely the ultimate end of human knowledge, or the object at which all sciences properly must aim. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Waldman inflicted torture when he praised, with kindness and warmth, the astonishing progress I had made in the sciences. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Louis XIV set up an academy of sciences in rivalry with the English Royal Society of Charles II and the similar association at Florence. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Our modern numerals are Arabic; our arithmetic and algebra are essentially Semitic sciences. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- All these, and many more useful arts, too many to be enumerated here, wholly depend upon the aforesaid sciences, namely, arithmetic and geometry. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Nothing remains to us but that universal or primary science of which all the arts and sciences are partakers, I mean number or calculation. Plato. The Republic.
- He valued the sciences, not on their own account, but as they might subserve the purposes of the orator. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Both these great nations of antiquity, ho wever, failed to carry the sciences that arose in connection with their arts to a high degree of generalization. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Monsieur Amontons, in his _Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences, An. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Now a vital relationship can be observed not only among different stages of the same science, but als o among the different sciences. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- In fact, this form of utilization has been carried further in Europe than in this country as a means of demonstration in the arts and sciences. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- And does not the same principle hold in the sciences? Plato. The Republic.
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