SCIENTIFIC

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Conforming with the principles or methods used in science

Example:

a scientific approach

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

technological (based in scientific and industrial progress)

Attribute:

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

Antonym:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or relating to the practice of science

Example:

scientific journals

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

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

Credits

Context examples:

As I said at the beginning, I'm not a scientific expert.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

The person(s) in charge of a clinical trial or a scientific research grant.

(PI, NCI Dictionary)

Your scientific slang is beyond me.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The study of the end results of health services, with the intention of providing scientific evidence relating to the value of the decisions made by all who participate in the health care process.

(Outcomes Research, NCI Thesaurus)

Betacyanin is a potent antioxidant that has been shown to significantly reduce oxidative stress in patients and may even help in preventing chronic pathologies, inflammation, and cancer, according to the scientific literature.

(World's First True Red Spinach Variety Released, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child’s blindness, added to a student’s thirst for knowledge.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

DCLG members will interact directly with the scientific community at NCI on a wide range of programs and issues.

(NCI Director's Consumer Liaison Group, NCI Thesaurus)

For two good reasons, I will not enter deeply into this scientific branch of my confession.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

India, a predominantly agricultural country, has some 60 per cent of its total sown area under rainfed farming, making scientific forecasts of rainfall patterns vital to the country’s economy.

(Cave stalagmites reveal India’s rainfall secrets, SciDev.Net)

The discovery could help improve understanding of the scientific basis of health benefits of olive products and develop new, low-cost nutraceutical strategies to fight type 2 diabetes and related obesity.