natural science

1. 1.

   the sciences involved in the study of the physical world and its phenomena

   Broaderscience

   Narrowerlife sciencechemistryphysicsearth sciencecosmography

Questions about natural science

What does natural science mean?

natural science means "the sciences involved in the study of the physical world and its phenomena".

Is natural science a common word?

natural 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.