English noun: scientific discipline |
1. | scientific discipline (cognition) a particular branch of scientific knowledge |
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| Samples | The science of genetics.
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| Synonyms | science |
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| Broader (hypernym) | bailiwick, discipline, field, field of study, study, subject, subject area, subject field |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | agrobiology, agrology, agronomy, architectonics, cognitive science, cryptanalysis, cryptanalytics, cryptography, cryptology, informatics, information processing, information science, IP, linguistics, math, mathematics, maths, metallurgy, metrology, natural history, natural science, nutrition, psychological science, psychology, scientific agriculture, social science, strategics, systematics, tectonics, thanatology |
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| Part holonym | scientific theory |
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| Part meronym | scientific knowledge |
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| Domain category members | control, idealogue, math, mathematics, maths, theoretician, theoriser, theorist, theorizer, verify |
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