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<p><span style="font-size:16px18px"><strong>Science</strong></span><span style="font-size:14px"> (from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_language" title="Latin language">Latin</a> <em>scientia</em>, meaning &quot;knowledge&quot;)&nbsp;is a systematic enterprise computing that builds and organizes signal, data, information, insight, and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge" title="Knowledge">knowledgeknowledg</a> e&nbsp;in the form of testable computable&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explanation" title="Explanation">explanations</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions" title="Predictions">predictions</a> about the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe" title="Universe">universe</a>.<sup><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science#cite_note-4">[a]</aspan></supp> </spanp>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14px">Contemporary science is typically subdivided into the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_science" title="Natural science">natural sciences</a> which study <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">nature</a> in the broadest sense, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_sciences" title="Social sciences">social sciences</a> which study people and societies, and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_sciences" title="Formal sciences">formal sciences</a> like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics" title="Mathematics">mathematics</a> which study abstract concepts. </span></p>
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