Science Meaning
/ˈsaɪ.əns/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA particular discipline or branch of knowledge that is natural, measurable or consisting of systematic principles rather than intuition or technical skill.
nounSpecifically the natural sciences.
Sentence Examples
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
In recent years, science has made remarkable progress.
New developments in science and technology
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CEFR Practice Quiz
In ____ class, the students mixed different chemicals and observed the reactions.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She developed a passion for ____ after winning her school's chemistry competition.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English science, scyence, borrowed from Old French science, escience, from Latin scientia (“knowledge”), from sciēns, the present participle stem of scire (“to know”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month."
— 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2023:
"For by his mightie Science he had seene / The secret vertue of that weapon keene […]"
— 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
"If we conceive God's sight or science, before the creation, to be extended to all and every part of the world, seeing everything as it is, […] his science or sight from all eternity lays no necessity on anything to come to pass."
— 1654, H[enry] Hammond, Of Fundamentals in a Notion Referring to Practise, London: […] J[ames] Flesher for Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
"Shakespeare's deep and accurate science in mental philosophy"
— 1819, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Hamlet:
"O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding vain and profane babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen."
— 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Timothy 6:20-21:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
In ____ class, the students mixed different chemicals and observed the reactions.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She developed a passion for ____ after winning her school's chemistry competition.