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BIG SCIENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does big science mean? 

BIG SCIENCE (noun)
  The noun BIG SCIENCE has 1 sense:

1. scientific research that requires massive capital investment but is expected to yield very significant resultsplay

  Familiarity information: BIG SCIENCE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BIG SCIENCE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Scientific research that requires massive capital investment but is expected to yield very significant results

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("big science" is a kind of...):

research project; scientific research (research into questions posed by scientific theories and hypotheses)


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