| natural science n. A science, such as biology, chemistry, or physics, that deals with the objects, phenomena, or laws of nature and the physical world. natural scientist n. |
natural science
Noun
any of the sciences dealing with the study of the physical world, such as biology, physics, chemistry, and geology
| natural science A science, such as biology, chemistry, or physics, that deals with the objects, phenomena, or laws of nature and the physical world. |
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| Noun | 1. |  natural science - the sciences involved in the study of the physical world and its phenomenascience, scientific discipline - a particular branch of scientific knowledge; "the science of genetics" bioscience, life science - any of the branches of natural science dealing with the structure and behavior of living organisms chemical science, chemistry - the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions natural philosophy, physics - the science of matter and energy and their interactions; "his favorite subject was physics" physical science, physics - the physical properties, phenomena, and laws of something; "he studied the physics of radiation" earth science - any of the sciences that deal with the earth or its parts cosmography - the science that maps the general features of the universe; describes both heaven and earth (but without encroaching on geography or astronomy) |
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