the sciences collectively that are involved in the study of the physical world and its phenomena, including biology, physics, chemistry, and geology, but excluding social sciences, abstract or theoretical sciences, such as mathematics, and applied sciences
2.
any one of these sciences
Derived forms
natural scientist
noun
natural science in American English
1.
the systematized knowledge of nature and the physical world, including zoology, botany, chemistry, physics, and geology
2.
any of these branches of knowledge
Examples of 'natural science' in a sentence
natural science
The natural sciences developed from the pursuit of the technical interest.
Low, Nicholas Politics, Planning and the State (1990)