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Yunqing Zhang Posted 8 years ago
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A sentence confuses me

It's a study tool to help students from different scientific backgrounds learn about and develop technology.

What does from different scientific backgrounds mean in here.


Thanks in advance.

  

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Without any further context, Ii take 'different' here to mean 'various'. eg a student from a physics background a student from a chemistry background a student from a computing science background

  • Without any further context, Ii take 'different' here to mean 'various'.
  • eg a student from a physics background a student from a chemistry background a student from a computing science background
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Without any further context, Ii take 'different' here to mean 'various'.

eg

a student from a physics background

a student from a chemistry background

a student from a computing science background

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