Learn English – word that means “as its name would suggest”

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Does there exist a single word that more or less means "as its name would suggest"? For example, is there a word that appropriately might replace the bolded portion of the following sentence?

Computer Science, as its name would suggest, is the science of computation.

Something perhaps in the vein of the following?

Computer Science, unsurprisingly, is the science of computation.

Best Answer

Perhaps:

The discipline 'Computer Science', fittingly, is the science of computation.

or

The discipline 'Computer Science' is aptly named; it is the science of computation.

Informally, I see increasing usage of "well" as an obvious connotation:

Computer Science is, well, the science of computation.

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