science
/ˈsaɪ.əns/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.12 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A particular discipline or branch of knowledge that is natural, measurable or consisting of systematic principles rather than intuition or technical skill.
Countable
noun
Knowledge gained through study or practice; mastery of a particular discipline or area.
Archaic; Uncountable
noun
The collective discipline of study or learning acquired through the scientific method; the sum of knowledge gained from such methods and discipline.
Uncountable
noun
Knowledge derived from scientific disciplines, scientific method, or any systematic effort.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Of course in my opinion Social Studies is more of a science than an art."
- "My favorite subjects at school are science, mathematics, and history."
- "For by his mightie Science he had seene / The secret vertue of that weapon keene […]"
- "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."
- "Shakespeare's deep and accurate science in mental philosophy"
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: science, scientia