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e-science

e-science noun: computationally intensive science, carried out in distributed network environments or with very large sets of data.

Noun

e-science (uncountable)

  1. computationally intensive science, carried out in distributed network environments or with very large sets of data

Origin of e-science

From e- + science.

Questions about e-science

What does e-science mean?
E-science means computationally intensive science, carried out in distributed network environments or with very large sets of data.
What part of speech is e-science?
E-science is a noun.

Words near e-science in the dictionary

  1. e-safety commissioners
  2. e-SAFs
  3. e-sales
  4. e-school
  5. e-schools
  6. e-science
  7. e-scientific
  8. e-scientist
  9. e-scientists
  10. e-scooter
  11. e-scooterer

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