Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or employing the methodology of science.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Concerned with the acquisition of accurate and systematic knowledge of principles by observation and deduction: as, scientific investigation.
- Of or pertaining to, treating of, or used in science: as, scientific works; scientific instruments; scientific nomenclature.
- Versed in science; guided by the principles of science, and not by empiricism or mere quackery; hence, learned; skilful: as, a scientific physician.
- According to the rules or principles of science; hence, systematic; accurate; nice: as, a scientific arrangement of fossils.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of, or having to do with science.
- adj. Having the quality of being derived from, or consistent with, the scientific method.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to science; used in science.
- adj. Agreeing with, or depending on, the rules or principles of science.
- adj. Having a knowledge of science, or of a science; evincing science or systematic knowledge.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. conforming with the principles or methods used in science
- adj. of or relating to the practice of science
Etymologies
- Medieval Latin scientificus, producing knowledge : Latin scientia, knowledge; see science + Latin -ficus, -fic.
Examples
“What Googled list does not contain is any scientific discussion and there is plenty in modern science which is pressing scientific consensus as an argument of validity for some theory.”
“As the scientific group pointed out, "agricultural and veterinary leaders continue to believe, in spite of overwhelming scientific evidence to the contrary, that the main approach to cattle TB control must involve some form of badger population control".”
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“Excellent patterns, celestial exemplars, of the things required were held up to it; and endless declamation and argument why it should be that, and not the other, were not wanting: -- but as to any scientific inquiry into the nature of the thing on which this form was to be superinduced, as to any _scientific_ exhibition of the form itself which was to be superinduced, these so essential conditions of the proposed result, were in this case alike wanting.”
“Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions made scientific revolutions, and historical development and concrete scientific practices more generally, central topics in science studies and established the best known account of both revolutionary and non-revolutionary (normal) science ” so well known that his account has largely pre-empted the term ˜scientific revolution™.”
“The only difference was that they justified their greediness by business whereas the Aras justified their lack of qualms by the label scientific progress.”
Enemy in the Dark
“Over their eight years in power, President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao have vowed to steer officials away from the blind pursuit of growth, instead advocating what they term "scientific development.”
“Over their eight years in power, President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao have vowed to steer officials away from the blind pursuit of growth, instead advocating what they term "scientific development".”
“it's just a matter of not understanding what the term scientific theory means Judging from the comments here, you would have to conclude it is the progressives that are against science.”
“Despite the 1986 International Whaling Commission moratorium on commercial whaling Japan is permitted to kill nearly 1,000 whales each year for what it calls scientific research.”
“Fifty years ago, C.P. Snow was shocked to learn that most of his supposedly highly educated friends, who might look down their nose at someone who could not quote Shakespeare and the Bible, were totally ignorant of mass and acceleration, not to mention the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which he called the scientific equivalent of asking: "Can you read?”
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