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- pronunciation:
- saI
 ns
- features:
- Word History, Word Explorer, Word Parts
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noun |
| definition 1: |
a system of studying, testing, and experimenting on things in nature. Science is a search for general laws about how the world works.
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| definition 2: |
a particular branch of this activity.
Physics and biology are two sciences. |
Science comes from a Latin word that means "knowledge."
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college degree in science |
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B.S. |
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some activities in science |
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examine, research, study, test |
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some aspects of science |
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argument, debate, discussion, experiment, hypothesis, law, logic, theory |
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some examples of sciences |
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aeronautics, agriculture, anatomy, archaeology, astronomy, aviation, biology, botany, chemistry, ecology, economics, electronics, genetics, geology, law, medicine, meteorology, ornithology, physics, psychology, zoology |
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some places for science |
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lab, laboratory, school |
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suffix for science |
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-logy |
The word science
contains the following parts:
sci
Latin
root
that means to know
  Example words:
-ance, -ence, -ency, -ancy
Latin
noun-forming suffix
that means state, quality, or act of
More about this word part:
The suffix group -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
attaches to verbs and Latin verb stems to create nouns. The suffix -ance
is usually attached to whole English words, whereas -ence
is usually attached to roots: compare eloquence and acceptance
. For most nouns ending in -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
, there is a correponsponding adjective form ending in -ant, -ent.
Example words:
absence, acceptance, admittance, agency, arrogance, attendance, audience, buoyancy, conference, confidence, consequence, consistency, currency, deficiency, difference, disappearance, disturbance, emergency, frequency, importance, independence, occurrence, preference, presidency, residence, science, tendency
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