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em of botany or chemistry; a military system; the solar system. The best way to learn any science, is to begin with a regular system, or a short and plain scheme of that science well drawn up into a narrow compass. I. Watts.

and systems. I. Watts. A representation of phenomena, in order to answer the purposes of science, must be systematic. Whewell.

Measurement by a tachometer; the science or use of tachometers.

The science or use of the tachymeter. -- Ta`chy*met"ric (#), a.

The science and art of disposing military and naval forces in order for battle, and performing military and naval evolutions. It is divided into grand tactics, or the tactics of battles, and elementary tactics, or the tactics of instruction.

. You take me right. Bacon. Charity, taken in its largest extent, is nothing else but the science love of God and our neighbor. Wake. [He] took that for virtue and affection which was nothing but vice in a disguise. South. You'd doubt his sex, and take him for a girl. Tate.

That division of the natural sciences which treats of the classification of animals and plants; the laws or principles of classification.

Technical terms or objects; things pertaining to the practice of an art or science.

Of or pertaining to the useful or mechanic arts, or to any science, business, or the like; specially appropriate to any art, science, or business; as, the words of an indictment must be technical. Blackstone.

Those things which pertain to the practical part of an art, science, or profession; technical terms; technics.

Industrial science; the science of systematic knowledge of the industrial arts, especially of the more important manufactures, as spinning, weaving, metallurgy, etc.

A division of morphology created by Haeckel; the science of organic individuality constituting the purely structural portion of morphology, in which the organism is regarded as composed of organic individuals of different orders, each organ being considered an individual. See Promorphology, and Morphon.…

The science, or the art, by which implements, vessels, dwellings, or other edifices, are constructed, both agreeably to the end for which they are designed, and in conformity with artistic sentiments and ideas.

The science or art of constructing, or of communicating by means of, telegraphs; as, submarine telegraphy.

that they in no way admit of a mechanical explanation or one based entirely on biological science; the doctrine of adaptation to purpose.

e a more particular tendency to the good of their country. Addison. In every experimental science, there is a tendency toward perfection. Macaulay.

That branch of biological science which treats of monstrosities, malformations, or deviations from the normal type of structure, either in plants or animals.

e that has a precisely limited meaning in certain relations and uses, or is peculiar to a science, art, profession, or the like; as, a technical term. "Terms quaint of law." Chaucer. In painting, the greatest beauties can not always be expressed for want of terms. Dryden.

The terms actually used in any business, art, science, or the like; nomenclature; technical terms; as, the terminology of chemistry. The barbarous effect produced by a German structure of sentence, and a terminology altogether new. De Quincey.

The science which treats of testaceans, or shellfish; the description of shellfish. [R.]