Science ˈsaɪəns Based Extra Examples Study Noun Developments

• new developments in science and technology
• the advance of modern science
• the laws of science
• science students/teachers/classes

science

1. knowledge about the structure and behaviour of the natural and physical world, based on facts that you can prove, for example by experiments
• SEE ALSO hard science
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/hard-science
• new developments in science and technology
• the advance of modern science
• the laws of science

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• His essay is not based on good science.
• This rule is based on bad science.
• His experiments have achieved notoriety in the world of science.
• Research is critical to advancing medical science.
• The magazine contains a lot of popular science.
• our ability to understand the science of environmental degradation
2. the study of science
• science students/teachers/classes
• She is trying to encourage more young people to study science.

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• a writer of popular science books
• I was trying to remember what I had learnt about gravity in school science.
3. a particular branch of science
• COMPARE art
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/art_2
• medical/environmental science
• the biological sciences
• to study one of the sciences
• He was a pioneer in the science of genetics.

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• Meteorology is the science of the weather.
• Politics is as much an art form as an exact science.
4. a system for organizing the knowledge about a particular subject, especially one that deals with aspects of human behaviour or society
• a science of international politics
5. to confuse somebody by using technical or complicated language that they do not understand

Word Origin

• Middle English (denoting knowledge): from Old French, from Latin scientia, from scire ‘know’.