scientific fact

1. 1.

   an observation that has been confirmed repeatedly and is accepted as true (although its truth is never final)

   Broaderobservation

Questions about scientific fact

What does scientific fact mean?

scientific fact means "an observation that has been confirmed repeatedly and is accepted as true (although its truth is never final)".

Is scientific fact a common word?

scientific fact 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.