SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scientific knowledge mean? 

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

1. knowledge accumulated by systematic study and organized by general principles

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Knowledge accumulated by systematic study and organized by general principles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

mathematics is the basis for much scientific knowledge

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

domain; knowledge base; knowledge domain (the content of a particular field of knowledge)

Meronyms (parts of "scientific knowledge"):

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

Attribute:

scientific (conforming with the principles or methods used in science)

unscientific (not consistent with the methods or principles of science)

 Context examples 

The discipline concerned with the application of scientific knowledge to solve practical issues in commerce or industry.

(Engineering, NCI Thesaurus)

Fundamental research designed to obtain or increase general scientific knowledge.

(Basic Research, NCI Thesaurus)

We found that, contrary to previous scientific knowledge, unhealthy trees have a higher likelihood of being female, and the size of the tree doesn't seem to influence what sex a tree is, said lead author Jennifer Blake-Mahmud, a botanist at Princeton University.

(Striped maple trees often change mating types, with females more likely to die, National Science Foundation)