scientific discipline

Noun
  1. A particular branch of scientific knowledge (synset 106008975)
    "the science of genetics"
    associated with:
    is a type of: bailiwick, discipline, field, field of study, study, subject, subject area, subject field - a branch of knowledge
    subtypes:
    • natural history - the scientific study of plants or animals (more observational than experimental) usually published in popular magazines rather than in academic journals
    • natural science - the sciences involved in the study of the physical world and its phenomena
    • math, mathematics, maths - a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement
    • agronomy, scientific agriculture - the application of soil and plant sciences to land management and crop production
    • agrobiology - the study of plant nutrition and growth especially as a way to increase crop yield
    • agrology - science of soils in relation to crops
    • architectonics, tectonics - the science of architecture
    • metallurgy - the science and technology of metals
    • metrology - the scientific study of measurement
    • nutrition - the scientific study of food and drink (especially in humans)
    • psychological science, psychology - the science of mental life
    • informatics, information processing, information science, ip - the sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information
    • cognitive science - the field of science concerned with cognition; includes parts of cognitive psychology and linguistics and computer science and cognitive neuroscience and philosophy of mind
    • social science - the branch of science that studies society and the relationships of individual within a society
    • strategics - the science or art of strategy
    • systematics - the science of systematic classification
    • thanatology - the branch of science that studies death (especially its social and psychological aspects)
    • cryptanalysis, cryptanalytics, cryptography, cryptology - the science of analyzing and deciphering codes and ciphers and cryptograms
    • linguistics - the scientific study of language
    has: scientific theory - a theory that explains scientific observations
    is a part of: scientific knowledge - knowledge accumulated by systematic study and organized by general principles
    same as: science

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