pure science

collocation in English

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pure
adjective
uk
/pjʊər/us
/pjʊr/
not mixed with ...
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science
noun
uk
/ˈsaɪ.əns/us
/ˈsaɪ.əns/
(knowledge from) the careful study of the structure and behaviour of the physical world, especially by watching, measuring, and doing experiments, and the development of theories to describe the results of ...
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(Definition ofpureandsciencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Twelve papers are presented in this issue, on topics ranging frompurescienceto science education.
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It is primarily a search for apuresciencebased on an art of application.
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Intelligence gathering is not a democratic process, but it is notpurescienceeither.
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While in medical school, his interest inpurescience, physical chemistry in particular, had been increasing.
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The term functionally substituted for the notion of "purescience," but without the latter's negative connotations.
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From the point of view ofpurescienceand of application, fast ignition is a research subject of pioneering significance.
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The letters and their context stressed the practical value of technology and showed less interest inpurescience.
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Models have become ubiquitous in public policy and corporate strategy, as well as applied andpurescience.
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It is not apurescience.
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He is a professor ofpurescience.
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Nor need we fear overlapping inpurescience.
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We have something we callpurescience, academic science.
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It seemed to be the purest ofpurescience.
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There are many important proposals for cooperation inpurescience.
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Exactly the same is true ofpurescience.
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It has made an unparalleled contribution topurescience.
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As we saw earlier, politics is not apurescience.
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Puresciencestrives for models of reality that do not appear in the first place as images of reality but as exploratory means of research.
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As the social importance of science became better established, that justification continued; but the case for "purescience" became more frequently invoked in its own right.
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So far, we have shown that technological changes do not work in a realm ofpurescience, but they work within a complex network of social relations.
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In those olden days, the most challenging science was thought to be pure, although there have been innumerable examples ofpuresciencediscoveries that later yielded practical applications.
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That is one of the reasons whypurescienceis preferred to technological science.
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Technology, however, has another aspect, remote frompurescience—namely, the economic aspect.
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One has only to consider the work done inpurescience.
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