## Meanings
1. The study of the physical world through observation and experiment, covering subjects like physics, chemistry, and biology.
2. A particular branch of organised knowledge.
3. Knowledge gained through careful study using the scientific method.

## Examples
- My favorite subjects at school are science, mathematics, and history.
- She specialises in the science of genetics.
- A great deal of good science has come from the Hubble telescope.

## Synonyms
- sci

## Derived Forms
- agroscience
- anti-science
- antiscience
- broscience
- cryoscience
- e-science
- exoscience
- fantascience
- hydroscience
- inscience
- interscience
- mcscience

## Related Forms
- education
- engineering
- experiment
- falsification
- hypothesis
- knowledge
- measurement
- objectivity
- observation
- scientist
- technology
- theory

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: science
- Root: scientia

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

## AI Etymology
Science is from Middle English science, scyence, borrowed from Old French science, escience, from Latin scientia (“knowledge”), from sciēns, the present participle stem of scire (“to know”). Important forms in the word's history include Middle English science, Old French science, Latin scientia. In current use it includes senses such as The study of the physical world through observation and experiment, covering subjects like physics, chemistry, and biology and A particular branch of organised knowledge.

## Topics
- Science & Research

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