sci-, -science, -sciently, -scientific, -scientifically, -scient, -sciently +

(Latin: to know, to learn; knowledge)

No knowledge of a science can be properly acquired until the terminology of that science is mastered, and this terminology is in the main of Greek and Latin origin.

—Spencer Trotter


agricultural science
A broad multidisciplinary field that encompasses the parts of exact, natural, economic, and social sciences that are used in the practice and understanding of agriculture.
artes, scientia, veritas
Arts, science, truth.

Motto of the University of Michigan, USA.

Artes/scientias/humanitates.
Arts/sciences/humanities.

Motto of the New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, New Mexico, USA.

attoscience
The study of the physical processes which occur in less than a fraction of a cycle of visible light, in times less than a quadrillionth of a second.
biobehavioral sciences
Any of the various branches of the life sciences; such as, neurobiology, neurochemistry, or neuroendocrinologiy, that deal with biological aspects of behavior.
bioscience
1. A collective term for the biological sciences including physics, chemistry, etc. wherein all are applicable.
2. A science that studies structures, functions, interactions, or other aspects of living organisms.
3. Any science that deals with the biological aspects of living organisms.
bioscientist
A specialist in any of the life sciences; for example: biology, ecology, physiology, or molecular biology.
Bonitatem et disciplinam et scientiam doce me.
Teach me goodness and discipline and knowledge.

Motto of Marycrest College, Davenport, Iowa, USA; and College of Mount Saint Vincent, Riverdale, New York, USA.

Motto of College of Mount Saint Vincent, Riverdale, New York, USA.

B.S., B.Sc.; Baccalureus Scientiae
Bachelor of Science.
computer science
Employment in the branch of science that promotes knowledge which is concerned with information processes, the structures and procedures that represent these processes, and their implementation in the various information-processing systems.
conscience
I. Inward knowledge, consciousness; inmost thought, mind.
2. The internal acknowledgement or recognition of the moral quality of one's motives and actions; the sense of right and wrong as regards things for which one is responsible; the faculty or principle which pronounces upon the moral quality of one's actions or motives, approving the right and condemning the wrong.
3. The internal acknowledgement or recognition of the moral quality of one's motives and actions; the sense of right and wrong as regards things for which one is responsible.
4. The faculty or principle which pronounces upon the moral quality of one's actions or motives, approving the right and condemning the wrong.
5. Etymology: from Old French conscience, from Latin conscientia, "knowledge within oneself, a moral sense"; from com-, "with" + scire, "to know".
conscientious
A reference to someone who is obedient or loyal to his/her conscience; habitually governed by a sense of duty; scrupulous.
conscientiously
1. According to the direction of conscience.
2. With a strict regard for right and wrong.
3. In a conscientious manner; attentively.
conscious
1. Sharing in the knowledge of, having cognizance of, being a witness to; mentally alive or awake.
2. Having internal perception or consciousness.
3. Aware of what one is doing or intending to do; having a purpose and intention in one's actions.
4. Objective or aware of one's consciousness; known to oneself, felt, sensible.
5. Etymology: from Latin conscius, "knowing, aware"; from conscire; from Latin scire, "to know"; probably a loan-translation of Greek syneidos.
consciously
1. Aware of one's self, acts, and surroundings. 2. A reference to a state of alertness characterized by response to external stimuli.
3. In Freud's terminology, the part of the mind that is constantly within awareness.

Related articles about science: "Science Race"; STEM, Part 1; STEM, Part 2; Scientific Specialties.


Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units meaning "know, knowledge; learn, learning": cogni-; discip-; gno-; histor-; intellect-; learn, know; math-; sap-; sopho-.


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