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big science en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative, uncountable) Alternative form of Big Science.
   alt of Big Science
   • Big money is not a sufficient, but it is a necessary condition for "big science;" therefore, it is not surprising that the big science era in physics coincided with the increase in government funding. 2002, Helge Kragh, Quantum Generations: A History of Physics in the Twentieth Century, →ISBN:
   • The HGP is the first genuine example of big science in the biological sciences, with an estimated original price tag of $3 billion. 2007, Karen F. Greif, Jon F. Merz, Current Controversies in the Biological Sciences, →ISBN:
   • Much big science is concentrated in a single huge machine. But distributed big science in this case consists of missions (also called projects) that make up an extended, multidecadal program of exploration 2014, W. Henry Lambright, Why Mars: NASA and the Politics of Space Exploration, →ISBN:
   • Big science has replaced traditional science, which was little, and had little public concern. Today big science has new, exciting tasks. This should not be at the cost of a loss of little science. There is a need to revive and protect it, in order to insure the continued well-being of science as a whole. For this a new system is required, since the old one transformed into big science and is thus no longer adequate. 2013, J. Agassi, Science and Culture, →ISBN, page 359: