scientific method
Noun
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Noun
scientific method (plural scientific methods) (generally referred to in the definite, as the scientific method)
- (sciences) A method of discovering knowledge about the natural world based in making falsifiable predictions (hypotheses), testing them empirically, and developing theories that match known data from repeatable physical experimentation.
- 1858 - George Woodyatt Hastings, Andrew Edgar, Charles Wager Ryalls, Edwin Pears - Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science
- Mr. Payne's paper aimed at the introduction of a scientific method founded upon rational principles which were altogether unknown to the mass
- 1858 - George Woodyatt Hastings, Andrew Edgar, Charles Wager Ryalls, Edwin Pears - Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science
- French: méthode scientifique
- German: wissenschaftliche Methode
- Italian: metodo scientifico
- Portuguese: método científico
- Russian: научный метод
- Spanish: método científico
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