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physics (root: physic)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun physics has 2 senses
- physics(n = noun.cognition) natural philosophy - the science of matter and energy and their interactions; "his favorite subject was physics" is a kind of natural science
- physics(n = noun.cognition) physical science - the physical properties, phenomena, and laws of something; "he studied the physics of radiation" is a kind of natural science
has particulars: astronomy, uranology, aeronautics, astronautics, biophysics, cryogenics, cryogeny, crystallography, electromagnetics, electromagnetism, electronics, electrostatics, mechanics, atomic physics, nuclear physics, nucleonics, optics, high-energy physics, high energy physics, particle physics, plasma physics, quantum physics, rheology, solid-state physics, statistical mechanics, thermodynamics
Derived forms adjective physical2, noun physicist1
has particulars: acoustics
CIDE DICTIONARY
physics, n. [See Physic.].
The science of nature, or of natural objects; that branch of science which treats of the laws and properties of matter, and the forces acting upon it; especially, that department of natural science which treats of the causes (as gravitation, heat, light, magnetism, electricity, etc.) that modify the general properties of bodies; natural philosophy. [1913 Webster]
" Chemistry, though a branch of general physics, is commonly treated as a science by itself, and the application of physical principles which it involves constitute a branch called chemical physics, which treats more especially of those physical properties of matter which are used by chemists in defining and distinguishing substances."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
physics, n. the science dealing with the properties and interactions of matter and energy.
Etymology
pl. of physic physical (thing), after L physica, Gk phusika natural things f. phusis nature
ROGET THESAURUS
physics
Materiality
N materiality, materialness, corporeity, corporality, substantiality, substantialness, flesh and blood, plenum, physical condition, matter, body, substance, brute matter, stuff, element, principle, parenchyma, material, substratum, hyle, corpus, pabulum, frame, object, article, thing, something, still life, stocks and stones, materials, physics, somatology, somatics, natural philosophy, experimental philosophy, physicism, physical science, philosophie positive, materialism, materialist, physicist, somatism, somatist, material, bodily, corporeal, corporal, physical, somatic, somatoscopic, sensible, tangible, ponderable, palpable, substantial, objective, impersonal, nonsubjective, neuter, unspiritual, materialistic.
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