big science

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   scientific research that requires massive capital investment but is expected to yield very significant results

   Broaderscientific research

Questions about big science

What does big science mean?

big science means "scientific research that requires massive capital investment but is expected to yield very significant results".

Is big science a common word?

big science is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.