scientific discipline
Noun
Meaning
a particular branch of scientific knowledge
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One is led to conclude that economics as a scientific discipline is still somewhat hanging in the air.
Submission to the experimental data is the golden rule that dominates any scientific discipline.
[Though computer science is a fairly new discipline, it is predominantly based on the Cartesian world view. As Edsgar W. Dijkstra has pointed out] A scientific discipline emerges with the - usually rather slow!
the science of genetics