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science

noun
science pronunciation English ˈsaɪəns science pronunciation American ˈsaɪəns
 
1 [uncountable] knowledge about the structure and behaviour of the natural and physical world, based on facts that you can prove, for example by experimentsnew developments in science and technologythe advance of modern sciencethe laws of science2 [uncountable] the study of sciencescience students/teachers/courses3 [uncountable, countable] a particular branch of scienceto study one of the sciences compare art (6), humanities4 [singular] a system for organizing the knowledge about a particular subject, especially one concerned with aspects of human behaviour or societya science of international politics see also domestic science, earth science, life sciences, natural science, political science, rocket science, social science
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blind somebody with science at blind verb