NATURAL SCIENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does natural science mean? 

• NATURAL SCIENCE (noun)
  The noun NATURAL SCIENCE has 1 sense:

1. the sciences involved in the study of the physical world and its phenomena

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NATURAL SCIENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The sciences involved in the study of the physical world and its phenomena

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

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

science; scientific discipline (a particular branch of scientific knowledge)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "natural science"):

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)

physical science; physics (the physical properties, phenomena, and laws of something)

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))

 Context examples 

As a child I had not been content with the results promised by the modern professors of natural science.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

All of the divisions of the natural sciences dealing with the various aspects of the phenomena of life and vital processes.

(Biological Sciences, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The division of the natural sciences that is concerned with the phenomenon of life and vital processes.

(Biological Sciences, NCI Thesaurus)

A bachelor's degree, usually awarded for studies in natural science, pure science, or technology.

(Bachelor of Science, NCI Thesaurus)

The natural sciences dealing with inanimate matter or with energy, as physics, chemistry, astronomy.

(Physical Sciences, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

An associate's degree awarded upon completion of a course of study usually lasting two years with areas of concentration in mathematics, natural sciences, or technology.

(Associate of Science, NCI Thesaurus)

Clerval had never sympathised in my tastes for natural science; and his literary pursuits differed wholly from those which had occupied me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)