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🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

ciencias naturales

Pronunciation / Transliteration: θjenθjas natuɾales

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Natural Science/ˈnætʃ.ər.əl ˈsaɪ.əns/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #3400 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Las ciencias naturales son fundamentales para la educación."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A branch of science that deals with the physical world and its phenomena, including biology, chemistry, physics, and earth sciences.

    "Natural science plays a crucial role in understanding climate change and its effects on the environment."
  2. 2

    The study of the natural world through observation and experimentation.

    "Students in the natural science program are required to conduct experiments in the laboratory."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'naturalis' (pertaining to nature, from natura 'birth, nature') and the Latin 'scientia' (knowledge, from scire 'to know'). The term emerged in early modern English to categorize systematic enterprises that build and organize knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.

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