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English

Etymology

From Latin scientia , knowledge, noun formed from present participle sciens , knowing, from verb scire, know.

Noun

science, plural sciences

Sometimes uncountable

  1. The act and embodiment of performing the scientific method in order to discover empirically proven truth.
  2. Organized body of knowledge; any particular art or discipline
  3. A study of a particular discipline, usually involving measuring something, prevention, or causation.
  4. Those who carry out this study, referred to as a group
    "Modern science today tells us that...."

Related terms

Translations

  • Aragonese: zenzia f
  • Asturian: ciencia f
  • Breton: skiant f -où pl
  • Catalan: ciència f (ca)
  • Chinese: 科学 (kē-xué or kēxué?)
  • Czech: věda f
  • Danish: videnskab
  • Dutch: wetenschap f
  • Estonian: teadus
  • Esperanto: scienco
  • Finnish: tiede
  • French: science f
  • Frisian: wittenskip f
  • Galician: ciencia
  • German: Wissenschaft f (de)
  • Greek: επιστήμη f (epistími) (el)
  • hebrew: מדע ()
  • Hindi: विज्ञान ()
  • Interlingua: scientia
  • Icelandic: vísindi
    saidheans
  • Italian: scienza f
  • Japanese: 科学 (かがく, kagaku)
  • Korean: Hanja: 학 (hag), 학문 (hag-mun), 과학 (gwa-hag)
  • Kurdish: zanist /()
  • Latin: scientia f
  • Lithuanian: mokslas m (2)
  • Low German: wetenskap
  • Nahuatl: tlapohualmatiliztli
  • Norwegian: vitenskap m
  • Persian: دانش (danesh )
    nauka f
  • Portuguese: ciência f
  • Romanian: ştiinţă f
  • Russian: Наука (nauka)
  • Slovak: veda f
  • Slovenian: znanost
  • Spanish: ciencia f
  • Sundanese: élmu
  • Swahili: Sayansi
  • Swedish: vetenskap c
  • Tagalog: agham , siyensya
  • Turkish: bilim
  • Ukrainian: Наука (nauka)

French

science f

  1. science

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