SCIENTIFIC FACT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scientific fact mean? 

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

1. an observation that has been confirmed repeatedly and is accepted as true (although its truth is never final)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCIENTIFIC FACT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An observation that has been confirmed repeatedly and is accepted as true (although its truth is never final)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

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

observation (facts learned by observing)

 Context examples 

"I must in turn ask you, Mr. Waldron," he said, "to cease to make assertions which are not in strict accordance with scientific fact."

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)