Scientist vs False - What's the difference?
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One whose activities make use of the scientific method to answer questions regarding the measurable universe. A scientist may be involved in original research, or make use of the results of the research of others.
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, title= Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun scientist
is one whose activities make use of the scientific method to answer questions regarding the measurable universe a scientist may be involved in original research, or make use of the results of the research of others.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.scientist
English
(wikipedia scientist)Noun
(en noun)Behaviorism at 100, passage=Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists' have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural ' scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.}}
Karen McVeigh
US rules human genes can't be patented, passage=The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.}}
Derived terms
* computer scientist * natural scientist * pseudoscientist nounSee also
* peer reviewfalse
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Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}