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metascientific

metascientific adjective: concerning the science of science; relating to metascience.

Adjective

metascientific (not comparable)

  1. Concerning the science of science; relating to metascience.
    • Discovery is not in itself a scientific idea but rather an idea that is foundational for science: we might call it a metascientific idea.2015, David Wootton, The Invention of Science, Penguin, published 2016, page 103

Origin of metascientific

From meta- + scientific.

Questions about metascientific

What does metascientific mean?
Metascientific means concerning the science of science; relating to metascience.
What part of speech is metascientific?
Metascientific is an adjective.

Words near metascientific in the dictionary

  1. metaschematizes
  2. metaschematizing
  3. metaschoderite
  4. metaschoepite
  5. metascience
  6. metascientific
  7. metascientist
  8. metascientists
  9. metascuta
  10. metascutal
  11. metascutella

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