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English

Etymology

Early Modern French rechercher (“to examine closely”), from Old French recerchier (“to seek, to look for”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???s??t?/, /??i?.s??t?/
• Rhymes: -??(r)t?
• (US) IPA^(key): /??i.s?t?/, /?i?s?t?/

Noun

research (countable and uncountable, plural researches)

1. (uncountable, countable in some dialects) Diligent inquiry or examination to seek or revise facts, principles, theories, applications, etc.; laborious or continued search after truth.

   The research station that houses Wang and his team is outside Lijiang, a city of about 1.2 million people.

2. (countable, dated) A particular instance or piece of research.
   • 1747, The Scots magazine (volume 9, page 567)

     The first step I took in this so necessary a research, was to examine the motives, the justice, the necessity and expediency of the revolution […]

Synonyms

• investigation
• exploration
• examination
• study
• inquiry
• scrutiny

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• research octane number
• research paper
• recherche

Translations

Verb

research (third-person singular simple present researches, present participle researching, simple past and past participle researched)

1. (transitive) To search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently.
2. (intransitive) To make an extensive investigation into.
3. (transitive) To search again.

Translations

References

• “research”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN
• “research” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "research" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

Anagrams

• reachers, searcher

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology

From English research, from early Modern French rechercher (“to examine closely”), from Old French recerchier (“to seek, to look for”). Forms a doublet with Dutch recherche, which is a direct borrowing from French.

Noun

research f (uncountable, diminutive researchje n)

1. research

Usage notes

The plural is very rare or non-existent.

Synonyms

• onderzoek, speurwerk, vorsing, navorsing

For Wiktionary’s statistics, see Wiktionary:Statistics and Special:Statistics

English

Wikibooks

Alternative forms

• statisticks (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st??t?st?ks/

Etymology 1

From German Statistik, from New Latin statisticum (“of the state”) and Italian statista (“statesman, politician”). Statistik introduced by Gottfried Achenwall (1749), originally designated the analysis of data about the state.

Noun

statistics (uncountable)

1. A discipline, principally within applied mathematics, concerned with the systematic study of the collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation of data.
   • 1972, Leonard J. Savage, The Foundations of Statistics, Dover, page 1,

     As for statistics, the foundations include, on any interpretation of which I have ever heard, the foundations of probability, as controversial a subject as one could name. As in other sciences, controversies over the foundations of statistics reflect themselves to some extent in everyday practice, nut not nearly so catastrophically as one might imagine. […] It is hard to judge, however, to what extent the relative calm of modern statistics is due to its domination by a vigorous school relatively well agreed within itself about the foundations.

   • 2004, David C. LeBlanc, Statistics: Concepts and Applications for Science, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, page 61,

     The application of statistics in the process of science can be divided into three parts: (1) obtaining data (experiment and sampling design), (2) summarizing and describing data (exploratory data analysis, descriptive statistics), and (3) using data from samples and experiments to make estimates and test competing hypotheses about the universe (inferential statistics).

Usage notes

• Within mathematics, the term statistics usually refers to mathematical statistics.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of probability and statistics

Etymology 2

Noun

statistics pl (plural only)

1. A systematic collection of data on measurements or observations, often related to demographic information such as population counts, incomes, population counts at different ages, etc.
   • 1996, Ron C. Mittelhammer, Mathematical Statistics for Economics and Business, Springer, page 389,

     Sufficient statistics for a given estimation problem are a collection of statistics or, equivalently, a collection of functions of the random sample, that summarize or represent all of the information in a random sample that is useful for estimating any ${\displaystyle {\textbf {q}}(\!{\boldsymbol {\Theta }}\!)}$.

   Synonym: (informal) stats

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Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

statistics

1. plural of statistic