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science center en · NOUN

Meanings

1. An organization, location, or virtual location where science is done or exhibited, either professionally or educationally.
   • Intel's hands-on science centers were so successful with students that the New Mexico State Department of Education adopted them as a model for schools. 2000 July/August, Edward E Gordon, “Help wanted: Creating tomorrow's work force”, in Futurist, volume 34, number 4, page 48:
   • Take Washington D.C.'s much-heralded makeover of Union Station, for example. Or in the Midwest, where adaptive reuse has driven lavish restorations of big stations in St. Louis, now primarily a marketplace, and in Kansas City, where a science center is the main tenant. 2001 April 18, Ross Atkin, “Back on track”, in Christian Science Monitor:
   • Gatorade Sports Science institute(R) Committed to providing information in exercise science and sports nutrition. Visit the sports science center at www.gssiweb.com for practical training information 2001 September 14, “Skills: Which wheel should you draft?”, in Bicycling, volume 42, number 9, page 24:
   • Founded in 1967 as a private, nonprofit science center, Talcott attracts thousands of students from the region to its daylong and weekend sessions to supplement their regular science curriculum 1991 December, G. Keizer with D. M. Kennedy, “Class acts”, in Omni, volume 14, number 3, page 42:

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Relateds

exploratorium · aquarium · planetarium · laboratory

Translations (8)

ko 과학관 (location where science is exhibited) · es centro de ciencias (location where science is exhibited) · fi tiedekeskus (location where science is exhibited) · tr bilim merkezi (location where science is exhibited) · io ciencocentro (location where science is exhibited) · ja 科学博物館 (location where science is exhibited) · pl centrum nauki (location where science is exhibited) · de Wissenschaftszentrum (location where science is exhibited)