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BIG SCIENCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does big science mean?
• BIG SCIENCE (noun)
The noun BIG SCIENCE has 1 sense:
1. scientific research that requires massive capital investment but is expected to yield very significant results
Familiarity information: BIG SCIENCE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Scientific research that requires massive capital investment but is expected to yield very significant results
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("big science" is a kind of...):
research project; scientific research (research into questions posed by scientific theories and hypotheses)
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