Definition of: science

(sī′əns) noun
1. Knowledge as of facts, phenomena, laws, and proximate causes, gained and verified by exact observation, organized experiment, and correct thinking; also, the sum of universal knowledge.
2. An exact and systematic statement or classification of knowledge concerning some subject or group of subjects.
3. Any department of knowledge in which the results of investigation have been systematized in the form of hypotheses and general laws subject to verification.
4. Expertness, skill, or proficiency resulting from knowledge.
5. Any one of the seven liberal arts (grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, music, geometry, astronomy): an ancient use. [<OF <L scientia <sciens, -entis, ppr. of scire know] Synonyms: knowledge, art, learning, scholarship. Knowledge may be a medley of facts which gain real value only when coordinated and systematized by the man of science. Art relates to something to be done or produced by skill, science to something to be known. Creative art seeking beauty for its own sake is closely akin to fundamental science seeking knowledge for its own sake. See ART¹, KNOWLEDGE.