| social relation | a relation between living organisms (especially between people) |
| social dancing | dancing as part of a social occasion |
welfare work
social service | an organized activity to improve the condition of disadvantaged people in society |
| big science | scientific research that requires massive capital investment but is expected to yield very significant results |
scientific research
research project | research into questions posed by scientific theories and hypotheses |
| social activity | activity considered appropriate on social occasions |
social welfare
welfare
public assistance | governmental provision of economic assistance to persons in need, she lives on welfare |
| social insurance | government provision for unemployed, injured, or aged people, financed by contributions from employers and employees as well as by government revenue |
supplementary benefit
social assistance
national assistance | benefits paid to bring incomes up to minimum levels established by law |
| Social Security | social welfare program in the U.S., includes old-age and survivors insurance and some unemployment insurance and old-age assistance |
| social control | control exerted (actively or passively) by group action |
| social work | any of various services designed to aid the poor and aged and to increase the welfare of children |
| social insect | an insect that lives in a colony with other insects of the same species |
Cooper Union
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art | university founded in by Peter Cooper to offer free courses in the arts and sciences |
lab
laboratory
research lab
research laboratory
science lab
science laboratory | a workplace for the conduct of scientific research |
| science museum | a museum that collects and displays objects having scientific interest |
| scientific instrument | an instrument used by scientists |
skill
science | ability to produce solutions in some problem domain, the skill of a well-trained boxer, the sweet science of pugilism |
| scientific method | a method of investigation involving observation and theory to test scientific hypotheses |
| scientific fact | an observation that has been confirmed repeatedly and is accepted as true (although its truth is never final) |
| creation science | an effort to give scientific support for the truth of the account of Creation given in the Book of Genesis |
| scientific theory | a theory that explains scientific observations, scientific theories must be falsifiable |
| scientific knowledge | knowledge accumulated by systematic study and organized by general principles, mathematics is the basis for much scientific knowledge |
science
scientific discipline | a particular branch of scientific knowledge, the science of genetics |
| natural science | the sciences involved in the study of the physical world and its phenomena |
life science
bioscience | any of the branches of natural science dealing with the structure and behavior of living organisms |
biology
biological science r | the science that studies living organisms |
| biomedical science | the application of the principles of the natural sciences to medicine |
| medical science | the science of dealing with the maintenance of health and the prevention and treatment of disease |
agronomy
scientific agriculture | the application of soil and plant sciences to land management and crop production |
ecology
bionomics
environmental science | the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment |
genetics
genetic science | the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms |
| brain science | the branch of neuroscience concerned with the brain |
zoology
zoological science | the branch of biology that studies animals |
chemistry
chemical science r | the science of matter, the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions |
| physics physical science | the physical properties, phenomena, and laws of something, he studied the physics of radiation |
| earth science | any of the sciences that deal with the earth or its parts |
geophysics
geophysical science | geology that uses physical principles to study properties of the earth |
engineering
engineering science
applied science
technology | the discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems, he had trouble deciding which branch of engineering to study |
computer science
computing | the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures |
psychology
psychological science | the science of mental life |
| social psychology | the branch of psychology that studies persons and their relationships with others and with groups and with society as a whole |
information science
informatics
information processing
IP | the sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information |
| cognitive science | the field of science concerned with cognition, includes parts of cognitive psychology and linguistics and computer science and cognitive neuroscience and philosophy of mind |
| social science | the branch of science that studies society and the relationships of individual within a society |
social anthropology
cultural anthropology | the branch of anthropology that deals with human culture and society |
politics
political science
government | the study of government of states and other political units |
home economics
home ec
domestic science
household arts | theory and practice of homemaking |
economics
economic science
political economy | the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management |
| library science | the study of the principles and practices of library administration |