science

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Estimated CEFR level: A2 — Elementary

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Definition

  1. noun a particular branch of scientific knowledge
  2. noun ability to produce solutions in some problem domain

Etymology

From Middle English science, scyence, borrowed from Old French science, escience, from Latin scientia (“knowledge”), from sciēns, the present participle stem of scire (“to know”).

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Synonyms

scientific discipline

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