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natural science

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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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Noun1.natural sciencenatural science - the sciences involved in the study of the physical world and its phenomena
science, 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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Levin had come across the magazine articles about which they were disputing, and had read them, interested in them as a development of the first principles of science, familiar to him as a natural science student at the university.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
Even when a treatise on medicine or natural science is brought out in verse, the name of poet is by custom given to the author; and yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common but the metre, so that it would be right to call the one poet, the other physicist rather than poet.
The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle View in context
Even in natural science he was not altogether abreast of his time--he refused to accept Harvey's discovery of the manner of the circulation of the blood and the Copernican system of astronomy.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
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