sciences
- 1Plural of science.
The university offers degrees in several sciences, from biology to geology.
Physics and chemistry are both considered exact sciences.
Note
Only the countable uses of science can take this -s. When the word names one discipline among several, such as biology, geology or the exact sciences, it pluralizes freely. When it means knowledge itself, or the sum of what scientific method has gathered, it stays singular and has no plural at all. So several sciences counts fields, while a great deal of science measures understanding.
- 2The full collection of scientific fields considered together as a single body of knowledge.
Government funding for the sciences increased sharply this year.
She believes the sciences and the humanities should inform each other.
Oppositehumanities, arts
Note
Here the plural works as a single banner rather than a count, and it almost always takes the: funding for the sciences, a career in the sciences. Its natural partner is the humanities, the other half of the academic map. Unlike the counting plural, it names no particular fields. It gathers them all under one roof.
sciences is a form of science
science, noun: The systematic study of the world through observation, experiment, and the testing of ideas, and the body of knowledge it produces. Full entry
- Forms
- sciencesciences plural
- Spelling
- science → sciences: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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