science

Significado (Inglês)

Noun

1. A particular discipline or branch of knowledge that is natural, measurable or consisting of systematic principles rather than intuition or technical skill.
2. Specifically the natural sciences.
3. Knowledge gained through study or practice; mastery of a particular discipline or area.
4. The fact of knowing something; knowledge or understanding of a truth.
5. The collective discipline of study or learning acquired through the scientific method; the sum of knowledge gained from such methods and discipline.
6. Knowledge derived from scientific disciplines, scientific method, or any systematic effort.
7. The scientific community.
8. Synonym of sweet science (“the sport of boxing”)

Verb

1. To cause to become versed in science; to make skilled; to instruct.
2. (colloquial) To use science to solve a problem.

Hifenizado como

sci‧ence

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈsaɪ.əns/

Etimologia (Inglês)

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