Sentence:  We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from <WSD>statistics</WSD> to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A mathematical science concerned with data collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation.