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Inventions: Glossary
A
- analyze
- to study or examine something in your possession so as to understand its meaning
- antibiotic
- medicine that kills disease-causing bacteria
B
- bacteria
- one-celled organisms, both harmful and helpful, found throughout the earth
- brainstorm
- to generate a number of ideas or solutions
C
- conclusion
- A reasonable judgment or summary of what you learned
- consistent
- staying the same over time
D
- data
- numbers and measurements you get from the test in a scientific experiment
E
- efficient
- functioning well, without wasting time or effort
- eventually
- after a long passage of time
F
- filament
- a thin thread-like conductor that is heated to glowing by the passage of electric current
- foundation
- the basis on which other things are built
H
- hypothesis
- an educated guess about how things work, an testable explanation
I
- improve
- to make more useful, valuable, or desirable
- incandescent
- glowing with intense heat
- innovation
- new changes to things which already exist
- investigation
- A quest to find the answer to a question using the scientific method
M
- modify
- to make small changes or adjustments
- mold
- a growth of fungi attached to something
O
- observation
- what you learn when you look closely, see, hear, or touch
- original
- new, first, not been done before
P
- perseverance
- continued, sustained effort even when it's difficult
- practical
- capable of being put to everyday use
- productive
- successfully perform tasks in timely manner
- prototype
- a first, functional model of a new design
R
- refine
- to modify, improve, or change something
- research
- to find and collect information about a subject
- results
- the outcomes or consequences of an experiment
S
- survive
- to stay alive
T
- technology
- the science of turning the materials of the natural world into objects, tools, and machines
- tinkering
- adjusting or working with something in an experimental way, without a sure outcome
V
- variable
- factor that can cause your test results to change
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