Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - eugenics
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Eugenics
eugenics
noun plural but singular in construction Date: 1883 a science that deals with the improvement (as by control of human mating) of hereditary qualities of a race or breed
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n.pl. (also treated as sing.) the science of improving the (esp. human) population by controlled breeding for desirable inherited characteristics. Derivatives eugenic adj. eugenically adv. eugenicist n. eugenist n. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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Eugenics is the study of methods to improve the human race by carefully selecting parents who will produce the strongest children. (TECHNICAL) N-UNCOUNT c darkgreen]disapproval ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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~ n plural the study of methods to improve the mental and physical abilities of human beings by choosing who should become parents ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1883, coined by Eng. scientist Francis Galton (1822-1911) on analogy of ethics, physics, etc. from Gk. eugenes "well-born, of good stock," from eu- "good" + genos "birth." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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