Noun | 1. | ![]() science, scientific discipline - a particular branch of scientific knowledge; "the science of genetics" computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures human language technology, natural language processing, NLP - the branch of information science that deals with natural language information cybernetics - (biology) the field of science concerned with processes of communication and control (especially the comparison of these processes in biological and artificial systems) queue - (information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted |