Толковый словарь английского языка - science

noun see: shed Date: 14th century the state of knowing ; knowledge as distinguished from ignorance or misunderstanding, 2. a department of systematized knowledge as an object of study , something (as a sport or technique) that may be studied or learned like systematized knowledge , 3. knowledge or a system of knowledge covering general truths or the operation of general laws especially as obtained and tested through scientific method, such knowledge or such a system of knowledge concerned with the physical world and its phenomena ; natural ~, a system or method reconciling practical ends with scientific laws , Christian Science