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单词 scientific
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Definition of scientific in English:

scientific

adjective sʌɪənˈtɪfɪkˌsaɪənˈtɪfɪk
  • 1Based on or characterized by the methods and principles of science.

    the scientific study of earthquakes
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The object of the life of study is philosophical or scientific understanding.
    • He is eagerly interested in anything scientific in nature, and careless about the feelings of people around him.
    • That all depends on how valid his scientific research is, now doesn't it?
    • But recently it has dawned on me that scientific research is a career worth pursuing.
    • Empirically a scientific fact has a higher probability of being correct, and should be considered on that basis.
    • And so, the first scientific journal, the Philosophical Transactions, was published in 1665.
    • Your son's experience may not be scientific, but it certainly is convincing.
    • New scientific evidence shows consistent patterns of decline of functioning for four different types of dying.
    • Yet it seemed like all great scientific discoveries were tested first for any possible military applications.
    • Again, it piggybacks off a common theory - the idea of paradigm shifts in scientific understanding.
    • Now, however, there should be no doubt that it had no sound scientific basis.
    • Only recently, however, has the behaviour become the subject of scientific study, and research remains in its infancy.
    • On the other hand, industries that rely more on empirical rather than scientific knowledge do less research.
    • What stands between me and an answer is not a lack of scientific studies into the properties of just actions, nor a lack of experience of justice in my life.
    • Their study now provides a sound scientific basis for the present standard of care.
    • And this is a matter about which there can be sensible debate based on a scientific or at least rational understanding of the world.
    • Should the real scientific community participate in this show trial at all?
    • Remember, now, this poll is not scientific.
    • But as scientific knowledge has grown so too have the perceived dimensions of the legal problems of conservation.
    • In the scientific community, the study of alternatives to animal research has become respectable in some quarters.
    Synonyms
    technological, technical
    research-based, factual, knowledge-based, empirical
    chemical, biological, medical
    1. 1.1 Relating to or used in science.
      scientific instruments
      Example sentencesExamples
      • If that were true, it would be hard indeed to understand his very cautious approach to other scientific problems.
      • There were also scientific instrument makers and optical experts on the Imperial payroll.
      • There is no mention of the need to develop clinical guidelines or a scientific approach to screening.
      • But neo-Darwinism has also in many cases abandoned proper scientific inquiry.
      • At first glance the literary and scientific approaches to language might seem to be diametrically opposed.
      • Many scientific instruments have been developed because of the unreliability or inadequacy of perception.
      • And we can talk of the reasonable, or scientific, approach to understanding the world.
      • For Copernicus, this meant gazing at the stars through scientific instruments of his own invention.
      • The shortcomings of a scientific approach have produced doctors in conflict with their patients.
      • It focuses on the scientific approaches towards finding whether we are the only living creatures in the universe.
      • Innovative scientific approaches have become all the more essential recently.
      • His scientific instruments are characterised by their stylish lettering and decoration.
      • We can do it with our own mind - we don't need scientific instruments.
      • A specialist who deals in antique scientific instruments has one with a price tag of £2,800.
      • In Taiwan, there is at present a sharp increase in demand for sophisticated scientific laboratory instruments.
      • An inventory of the scientific instruments collection has been published this year.
      • It carries seven scientific instruments which it will use to probe the mysterious planet.
      • It is probably the case that a purely scientific approach may actually work for some who are suffering.
      • Emphasizing the scientific approach can lead to a company losing sight of the holistic perceptions of its customers.
      • A photographic business and a scientific instruments department were soon added.
  • 2informal Systematic; methodical.

    how many people buy food in an organized, scientific way?
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Neither of them had officially completed high school, but they were certainly educated and scientific in their approach.
    • Fair rents are established by an individual consideration of a statutory definition that defies scientific precision.
    • Editors should be scientific in their methodology and humanistic in its application.
    • If you need to be scientific for purposes of the Talmud, so be it.
    • The Royal Society sought to put all speculation to rest with a truly scientific approach.
    • It is a scientific approach to testing intelligence and knowledge.
    • This problem cries for attention and a scientific approach to prevention or early intervention.
    • Institute have demonstrated there may be a more scientific approach to diet design.
    • It is a scientific approach to determine whether your investment strategies hold water before you start to invest with real money.
    • He was a campaigner for a scientific approach to the understanding of history and an advocate of resistance to power, in state or church.
    • He had a distinctly scientific approach to eating and was never more satisfied than when digesting the rarest species known to the palate.
    • I am sure all of your readers would agree with this scientific approach to setting policy.
    • The traces of a scientific approach are still quite evident in Music of the Orient, but they are used in other ways.
    • I've never made this bodybuilding thing very scientific.
    • Like many Progressives, he believed in a rational, scientific approach to reform.
    • Even the novice designer can take the time to use a scientific approach to color selection.
    • It has shown me how to utilize a scientific approach in analyzing health care businesses.
    Synonyms
    systematic, methodical, organized, well organized, ordered, orderly, meticulous, rigorous, exact, precise, accurate, mathematical, regulated, controlled
    analytical, rational

Derivatives

  • scientificity

  • noun
    • This purported scientificity of the spiritual realm, in turn, paves the way for declaring occult New Age practices like astrology, vastu, and quantum healing and even yagnas as scientific within the Vedic - Hindu universe.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Unfortunately, such breezy approximation rules his writing, bolstered by a polemical gesture (supposedly in tune with the films) against any spurious scientificity, abstract theorising or dry, unfeeling rationalism.
      • The correlation was never absolute, so it was defined as absolute, to pretend to scientificity.
      • In fact, they are not alone in defending the scientificity of yogic meditation as a valid scientific method.
      • Historical and institutional economics, on the other hand, are value laden, at least in origin, and the model of scientificity they intended to attain was somehow different.

Origin

Late 16th century: from French scientifique or late Latin scientificus 'producing knowledge', from scientia (see science). Early use described the liberal arts as opposed to the ‘mechanic’ arts (i.e. arts requiring manual skill).

Rhymes

anaglyphic, beatific, calorific, colorific, hieroglyphic, honorific, horrific, Indo-Pacific, pacific, prolific, soporific, specific, terrific, transpacific, triglyphic
 
 

Definition of scientific in US English:

scientific

adjectiveˌsīənˈtifikˌsaɪənˈtɪfɪk
  • 1Based on or characterized by the methods and principles of science.

    the scientific study of earthquakes
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The object of the life of study is philosophical or scientific understanding.
    • Now, however, there should be no doubt that it had no sound scientific basis.
    • Yet it seemed like all great scientific discoveries were tested first for any possible military applications.
    • Empirically a scientific fact has a higher probability of being correct, and should be considered on that basis.
    • But as scientific knowledge has grown so too have the perceived dimensions of the legal problems of conservation.
    • Their study now provides a sound scientific basis for the present standard of care.
    • Should the real scientific community participate in this show trial at all?
    • On the other hand, industries that rely more on empirical rather than scientific knowledge do less research.
    • Only recently, however, has the behaviour become the subject of scientific study, and research remains in its infancy.
    • Your son's experience may not be scientific, but it certainly is convincing.
    • Again, it piggybacks off a common theory - the idea of paradigm shifts in scientific understanding.
    • He is eagerly interested in anything scientific in nature, and careless about the feelings of people around him.
    • New scientific evidence shows consistent patterns of decline of functioning for four different types of dying.
    • That all depends on how valid his scientific research is, now doesn't it?
    • And this is a matter about which there can be sensible debate based on a scientific or at least rational understanding of the world.
    • What stands between me and an answer is not a lack of scientific studies into the properties of just actions, nor a lack of experience of justice in my life.
    • In the scientific community, the study of alternatives to animal research has become respectable in some quarters.
    • And so, the first scientific journal, the Philosophical Transactions, was published in 1665.
    • But recently it has dawned on me that scientific research is a career worth pursuing.
    • Remember, now, this poll is not scientific.
    Synonyms
    technological, technical
    1. 1.1 Relating to or used in science.
      scientific instruments
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A specialist who deals in antique scientific instruments has one with a price tag of £2,800.
      • It carries seven scientific instruments which it will use to probe the mysterious planet.
      • Many scientific instruments have been developed because of the unreliability or inadequacy of perception.
      • His scientific instruments are characterised by their stylish lettering and decoration.
      • An inventory of the scientific instruments collection has been published this year.
      • And we can talk of the reasonable, or scientific, approach to understanding the world.
      • We can do it with our own mind - we don't need scientific instruments.
      • At first glance the literary and scientific approaches to language might seem to be diametrically opposed.
      • There were also scientific instrument makers and optical experts on the Imperial payroll.
      • It is probably the case that a purely scientific approach may actually work for some who are suffering.
      • But neo-Darwinism has also in many cases abandoned proper scientific inquiry.
      • Emphasizing the scientific approach can lead to a company losing sight of the holistic perceptions of its customers.
      • Innovative scientific approaches have become all the more essential recently.
      • It focuses on the scientific approaches towards finding whether we are the only living creatures in the universe.
      • A photographic business and a scientific instruments department were soon added.
      • If that were true, it would be hard indeed to understand his very cautious approach to other scientific problems.
      • The shortcomings of a scientific approach have produced doctors in conflict with their patients.
      • In Taiwan, there is at present a sharp increase in demand for sophisticated scientific laboratory instruments.
      • There is no mention of the need to develop clinical guidelines or a scientific approach to screening.
      • For Copernicus, this meant gazing at the stars through scientific instruments of his own invention.
    2. 1.2informal Systematic; methodical.
      how many people buy food in an organized, scientific way?
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It has shown me how to utilize a scientific approach in analyzing health care businesses.
      • The Royal Society sought to put all speculation to rest with a truly scientific approach.
      • Fair rents are established by an individual consideration of a statutory definition that defies scientific precision.
      • It is a scientific approach to determine whether your investment strategies hold water before you start to invest with real money.
      • He had a distinctly scientific approach to eating and was never more satisfied than when digesting the rarest species known to the palate.
      • The traces of a scientific approach are still quite evident in Music of the Orient, but they are used in other ways.
      • I am sure all of your readers would agree with this scientific approach to setting policy.
      • If you need to be scientific for purposes of the Talmud, so be it.
      • Neither of them had officially completed high school, but they were certainly educated and scientific in their approach.
      • This problem cries for attention and a scientific approach to prevention or early intervention.
      • Institute have demonstrated there may be a more scientific approach to diet design.
      • Like many Progressives, he believed in a rational, scientific approach to reform.
      • Even the novice designer can take the time to use a scientific approach to color selection.
      • He was a campaigner for a scientific approach to the understanding of history and an advocate of resistance to power, in state or church.
      • It is a scientific approach to testing intelligence and knowledge.
      • I've never made this bodybuilding thing very scientific.
      • Editors should be scientific in their methodology and humanistic in its application.
      Synonyms
      systematic, methodical, organized, well organized, ordered, orderly, meticulous, rigorous, exact, precise, accurate, mathematical, regulated, controlled

Origin

Late 16th century: from French scientifique or late Latin scientificus ‘producing knowledge’, from scientia (see science). Early use described the liberal arts as opposed to the ‘mechanic’ arts (i.e. arts requiring manual skill).

 
 
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