exact science
collocation in Englishmeaningsofexactandscience
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exact
adjective
uk/ɪɡˈzækt/us/ɪɡˈzækt/
in great detail, or complete, correct, or true in ...
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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 ofexactandsciencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Quantifying the shtetl, then, was hardly anexactscience.
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But performance evaluation is not anexactscience.
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Economics is not anexactscience; yet it is more than an art.
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Mathematics also has reflexive capacities unlike those of any otherexactscience.
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This enabled its rapid elevation to the status of anexactscience.
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That is anexactscience.
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It is anexactscience.
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Of what essence is modern technology that it happens to think of puttingexactscienceto use?
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Accordingly, the ordering attitude and behaviour display themselves first in the rise of modern physics as anexactscience.
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Medicine is not anexactscience.
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But medicine is not anexactscience.
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Unfortunately, engineering is not anexactscience.
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It is not anexactscience.
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This is not anexactscience.
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Politics is not anexactscience.
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It will never be anexactscience.
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Medical science is not anexactscience.
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Forecasting is anything but anexactscience.
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Forward planning is not anexactscience.
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Clearly, that is not anexactscience.
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Economic policy is not anexactscience.
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Aero-dynamics is not anexactscience.
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It cannot be anexactscience.
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Traffic forecasting is not anexactscience.
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Now the collection of this charge is noexactscience.
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