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The Language of Science and Its Meaning

By Tlb
The language of Science: Electrical Experimenter, 1916, May

Electrical Experimenter, 1916, May (by Barros, via Wikipedia)

As it is established, Science is crucial and the major aspect why the world is in constant progress in many types of technologies and other inventions. As well, language is also an imperative tool why Scientists continue to succeed and give details how things function through Science and why this information consecutively usable for the benefit of the people. As result, language and science work together as one to do well to humanity existence.

 

It isn’t a big question at all why language institutions to learn Spanish languages, French, etc. is being pursued by more and more scientist across the globe to perform their studies. There are young people who wanted to become scientist. Yet most of them find it daunting to comprehend science due to its all hard words to read, write, and spell.

 

Well, scientific vocabulary is a bulk of little words with different meanings to connect together. In order to understand these little words easier, students have to learn first their meanings. To help them start, the following are some terms of each meaning:

 

Little Words of Science

 

meso means “middle”

endo/ intra means “inner”

anti  means “against”

arthro means “joint”

bi/ di means “two or double”

bio means “life, living”

cephal  means “head”

chloro  means “green”

cide  means “kill, killing”

derm  means “skin”

ecto/ exo means “outer, external”

epi  means “above”

gastro  means “stomach”

hemo  means “blood”

herba means “plants”

hetero  means “different”

homo  means “similar”

hydro  means “water”

hyper  means “above”

hypo  means “below”

itis  means “disease, inflammation”

phobia  means “dislike, fear”

mono  means “one, single”

morph means “form”

micro means “small”

macro means “large”

multi/ poly means “many”

pod  means “foot”

plasm  means “form”

proto means “first”

synthesis  means “to make”

troph means “eat, consume”

therm  means “heat”

zoo/ zoa  means “animal”

 

The language of science is unique, that is why in the unripe minds of students particularly, these little words are a little puzzle to understand but could be achievable if determination is there. It is advisable to start at any language school like English Language School and further.

 


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