branch of science

collocation in English

meaningsofbranchandscience

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branch
noun[C]
uk
/brɑːntʃ/us
/bræntʃ/
a part of ...
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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 ofbranchandsciencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Technology is only the appliedbranchofscience.
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I think that social anthropology is abranchofsciencethat is of the greatest importance.
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It is an indispensable element of the progress of anybranchofscience.
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Many of them are highly qualified specialists in onebranchofscienceor another.
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Shall thisbranchofscience, not only new in its name, but in its scientific terms, become new in a much more remarkable feature - in the unanimity of its professors?
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Every fact has a real, though unseen connection with every other fact: and when all the facts belonging to anybranchofscienceare collected the system will form itself.
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If the suit doesn't fit one or anotherbranchofscience, they are tempted to adjust this branch surgically, to ensure that it fits the pre-made philosophical garment.
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We cannot afford to tell the world that we are leaving this majorbranchofscienceto others.
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Scientists are also motivated by fame, and there are huge profits to be made in thisbranchofscience.
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Ethnopharmacy is thebranchofsciencethat investigates traditional medicines.
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We are all glad of that, but nobranchofsciencecan teal us how to behave in a particular situation.
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Such work would bring additions to almost everybranchofscience.
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Biochemistry was not, at that time, recognized as a separatebranchofscience.
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However, for each one dissertation only onebranchofsciencecan be chosen.
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Evo-devo arose as a separatebranchofsciencerather recently.
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Their pionering combination of mathematics with biology established abranchofsciencecalled population genetics.
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He believes this study should become a newbranchofscience, like physics or chemistry.
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It has a floor dedicated to eachbranchofscience, e.g. biology, physics and chemistry.
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There must of course be careful regulation and testing of new products, but they are not particularly worried about thatbranchofscienceas compared with others.
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There is more to be done there than in any otherbranchofscience, but it must be related to the physical discoveries of the day.
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Almost eachbranchofsciencehas its own interpretation and hence own ways of handling the characteristic randomness.
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Eachbranchofsciencestudies a subset of reality that depends on factors studied in other branches.
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Makinato are deemed to have occurred from alchemy, it is recognized as abranchofscience, and have been studied.
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Although horror is not "per se" abranchofsciencefiction, some works of horror literature incorporates science fictional elements.
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Do you really have to attack a wholebranchofsciencein order to counter liberal views on welfare?
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