ROCKET SCIENCE

PRONUNCIATION: (ROK-it sy-uhns)

MEANING: noun
1. The science of rocket design, construction, and flight.
2. Something requiring advanced knowledge and intelligence.

ETYMOLOGY: From Italian rocchetta, diminutive of rocca (spindle, distaff) + science, from Latin scientia, present participle of scire (to know). Ultimately from the Indo-European root skei- (to cut or split), which also gave us schism, ski, shin, adscititious, conscientious, exscind, nescient, scienter, and sciolism. Earliest documented use: 1931.
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RACKET SCIENCE - for the very best in tennis equipment

POCKET SCIENCE - specialized knowledge possessed by pool hustlers

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