sci·ence ( P ) Pronunciation Key (s![](http://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/graphics/AHD4/GIF/imacr.gif) ![](http://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/graphics/AHD4/GIF/prime.gif) ns) n.
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- The observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena.
- Such activities restricted to a class of natural phenomena.
- Such activities applied to an object of inquiry or study.
- Methodological activity, discipline, or study: I've got packing a suitcase down to a science.
- An activity that appears to require study and method: the science of purchasing.
- Knowledge, especially that gained through experience.
- Science Christian Science.
[Middle English, knowledge, learning, from Old French, from Latin scientia, from sci ns, scient- present participle of sc re, to know. See skei- in Indo-European Roots.] |