# science

Pronunciation: say "SY-uhns" /ˈsaɪ.əns/

## Noun

1. The systematic study of the world through observation, experiment, and the testing of ideas, and the body of knowledge it produces.
   - Simple: Studying how the world works by watching and testing things carefully, and what we learn from it.
   - _Modern science relies on careful observation, experiment, and review by other experts._
   - _Centuries of science have transformed how we treat disease._
2. A branch of knowledge organized around measurable facts and systematic principles rather than intuition or practical skill.
   - Simple: A field of study based on facts and clear rules, not on guessing or skill.
   - _Linguistics is now regarded as a science, with testable claims about language._
   - _Each science develops its own methods for gathering and checking evidence._
3. The natural sciences considered together: fields such as physics, chemistry, and biology that study the physical world.
   - Simple: The study of nature, like physics, chemistry, and biology.
   - _The university groups science separately from the arts and humanities._
   - _Funding for science has grown as governments back research in physics and biology._
5. A task or craft that turns out best when it is carried out by an exact technique that has to be carefully mastered.
   - Simple: Something you do best when you follow careful steps that you have learned well.
   - _Getting a toddler to nap is a science, and her parents have it timed to the minute._
   - _There is a real science to pricing a house so that it sells quickly._
4. The collective body of scientists and researchers, regarded as a single group.
   - Simple: The group of people who do scientific work, thought of as one body.
   - _Science has largely reached consensus on the safety of vaccines._
   - _When science speaks with one voice, policymakers tend to listen._
7. The sport of boxing, viewed as a skillful art, also known as 'the sweet science.'
   - Simple: Boxing, thought of as a sport that needs skill and clever timing.
   - _Few fighters have mastered the science like the old heavyweight champion._
   - _The science demands stamina, timing, and the nerve to take a punch._

## Verb

6. To apply scientific methods or thinking to work out a solution to a problem. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: To fix or work out a problem by using scientific methods.
   - _When the recipe failed, she decided to science the whole thing._
   - _Rather than swapping parts at random, she scienced the problem, changing one thing at a time and recording the results._

## Noun

8. In old use, knowledge or understanding, or skill gained through study or practice. *(archaic)*
   - Simple: An old use meaning knowledge, or skill learned by study or practice.

## Verb

9. To make someone skilled or learned; to instruct a person in a discipline. *(archaic)*
   - Simple: To teach someone a skill or subject until they know it well.

## Origin

Latin "scire" ("to know") has the present participle "sciens," which gave "scientia" ("knowledge"). That became Old French "science," and Middle English took the word from French.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/science (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).