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US
/ˈsaɪəns/
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[ UK /sˈaɪəns/ ]
[ UK /sˈaɪəns/ ]
NOUN
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a particular branch of scientific knowledge
the science of genetics -
ability to produce solutions in some problem domain
the skill of a well-trained boxer
the sweet science of pugilism
How To Use science In A Sentence
- While the site focuses mainly on their environmental concerns, they're also up in arms about the Bush administration's general abuse and disregard for science - including the idea that abstinence is some kind of cureall. News from the House of Sticks -
- Labour to keep alive in your breast that spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
- It would not be so bad if these tests were actually based on science or some objective measure but they are usually exercises in bureaucratic futility. Barack Obama Elected President of the United States | One Year Later...What's Changed?
- If we got into Ceram (and got out again), the doctor would reduce the whole affair to a few tables of anthropological measurements, a few more hampers of birds, beasts, and native rubbish in the hold, and a score of paragraphs couched in the evaporated, millimetric terms of science. The Spinner's Book of Fiction
- Among our number, there must be some who can bring home to the viewers the value and fascination of history as an art and science.
- But the avant-garde has found support for its imaginative approach from such sciences as biology.
- The recent U.S. ranking by the World Economic Forum of 48th out of 133 developed or developing nations in quality of math and science instruction is a siren call. Jacqueline Edelberg: Political Will
- First, the entire science of astronomy had depended on careful measurement from the very beginning.
- The services of the laboratory are offered gratuitously to any scientist or graduate student engaged in research which makes a significant contribution to progress in the fields of science.
- He was one of the first 19th century sailors who tamed the seas through science, inventing systems for transporting cannon over marshy ground, ciphers for code and a system of hydrographical surveys.