science

science
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
n. knowledge, skill, efficiency, technology.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
1. [An organized body of knowledge]
Syn. classified information, department of learning, branch of knowledge, system of knowledge, body of fact; see also anthropology , archaeology , astronomy , biology , botany , chemistry , cybernetics , geography , geology , mathematics , medicine 3 , physics , physiology , psychology , social science , sociology , zoology for commonly recognized sciences.
2. [A highly developed skill]
Syn. craftsmanship, art, deftness; see ability 1 , 2 .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
hard facts, physical laws, truths, body of knowledge, discipline. ''Trained and organized common sense.''—Thomas Huxley. ''A knowledge of matter.''—Fulton Sheen. ''Pearls strung on a cord of faith.''—Joshua Steinberg. ''Only the tools in a box.''— Frank Lloyd Wright.
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• agriculture: geoponics, agrology
• air, moving objects through: aerodynamics
• air: pneumatics
• animal, prebirth development: embryology
• animals: zoology
• aviation: aeronautics
• birds: ornithology
• building design: architecture
• caves: speleology
• cells: cytology
• chemicals, applied: chemical engineering
• chemistry of life processes: biochemistry
• civilization, uncovering facts about early: archeology
• classification, plant and animal: taxonomy
• climate: climatology
• color: chromatology
• crime: criminology
• cycles, natural: chronobiology
• earth: geology
• earthquakes: seismology
• earth’s moving plates: tectonics
• energy and heat: thermodynamics
• energy and matter: physics
• epidemics: epidemiology
• fish: ichthyology
• fluids: hydraulics
• fossils, animal: paleontology
• heredity and genes: genetics
• human beings: anthropology
• human beings, extinct: paleoanthropology
• gene manipulation: genetic engineering, eugenics
• life processes: biology
• lines, angles, planes, etc.: geometry
• machinery: mechanics
• mapping of terrain: topography, cartography
• metals: metallurgy
• monsters: teratology
• motion: kinetics, dynamics
• plants: botany
• plants, ornamental: horticulture
• population studies: demography
• primitive societies: ethnography
• societies and social behavior: sociology
• sound: acoustics
• space, study of: astronomy, astrophysics, cosmography, cosmology
• time: chronometry, horology
• water: hydrography
• weather: meteorology
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun Known facts, ideas, and skill that have been imparted: education, erudition, instruction, knowledge, learning, scholarship. See KNOWLEDGE.

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