English noun: science |
| 1. | science (cognition) a particular branch of scientific knowledge |
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| Samples | The science of genetics.
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| Synonyms | scientific discipline |
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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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| 2. | science (cognition) ability to produce solutions in some problem domain |
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| Samples | The skill of a well-trained boxer.
The sweet science of pugilism.
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| Synonyms | skill |
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| Broader (hypernym) | ability, power |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | nose, virtuosity |
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