SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scientific discipline mean? 

• SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINE (noun)
  The noun SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINE has 1 sense:

1. a particular branch of scientific knowledge

  Familiarity information: SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A particular branch of scientific knowledge

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

science; scientific discipline

Context example:

the science of genetics

Hypernyms ("scientific discipline" is a kind of...):

bailiwick; discipline; field; field of study; study; subject; subject area; subject field (a branch of knowledge)

Meronyms (parts of "scientific discipline"):

scientific theory (a theory that explains scientific observations)

Domain member category:

math; mathematics; maths (a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement)

idealogue; theoretician; theoriser; theorist; theorizer (someone who theorizes (especially in science or art))

control; verify (check or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scientific discipline"):

nutrition (the scientific study of food and drink (especially in humans))

linguistics (the scientific study of language)

cryptanalysis; cryptanalytics; cryptography; cryptology (the science of analyzing and deciphering codes and ciphers and cryptograms)

thanatology (the branch of science that studies death (especially its social and psychological aspects))

systematics (the science of systematic classification)

strategics (the science or art of strategy)

social science (the branch of science that studies society and the relationships of individual within a society)

cognitive science (the field of science concerned with cognition; includes parts of cognitive psychology and linguistics and computer science and cognitive neuroscience and philosophy of mind)

informatics; information processing; information science; IP (the sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information)

psychological science; psychology (the science of mental life)

natural history (the scientific study of plants or animals (more observational than experimental) usually published in popular magazines rather than in academic journals)

metrology (the scientific study of measurement)

metallurgy (the science and technology of metals)

architectonics; tectonics (the science of architecture)

agrology (science of soils in relation to crops)

agrobiology (the study of plant nutrition and growth especially as a way to increase crop yield)

agronomy; scientific agriculture (the application of soil and plant sciences to land management and crop production)

math; mathematics; maths (a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement)

natural science (the sciences involved in the study of the physical world and its phenomena)

Holonyms ("scientific discipline" is a part of...):

scientific knowledge (knowledge accumulated by systematic study and organized by general principles)

 Context examples 

The scientific discipline concerned with the physiology of the nervous system.

(Neurophysiology, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Used for the scientific discipline or the descriptive analyses themselves.

(Ethnography, NCI Thesaurus)

Used for the scientific discipline or the biochemical processes themselves.

(Comparative Biochemistry, NCI Thesaurus)

Scientific discipline concerned with the development of methods and application of these methods to detect, identify, and quantify biological materials (e.g., proteins, nucleic acids, metabolites).

(Analytical Biochemistry, NCI Thesaurus)

Used for the scientific discipline as a whole or for specific epidemiological factors or findings (e.g., AIDS incidence or prevalence statistics).

(AIDS Epidemiology, NCI Thesaurus)