physics
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]1580s; from physic (see also -ics), from Middle English phisik, from Old French fisike (“natural science, art of healing”), from Latin physica (“study of nature”), from Ancient Greek φυσική (phusikḗ), feminine singular of φυσικός (phusikós, “natural; physical”), from Ancient Greek φύσις (phúsis, “origin; nature, property”), from Ancient Greek φύω (phúō, “produce; bear; grow”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to appear, become, rise up”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]physics (uncountable)
- The branch of science concerned with the study of the properties and interactions of space, time, matter and energy.
- Newtonian physics was extended by Einstein to explain the effects of travelling near the speed of light; quantum physics extends it to account for the behaviour of atoms.
- 1994, A.J Meadows, M.M Hancock-Beaulieu, editors, Front Page Physics: A Century of Physics in the News[1], page 3:
- An analysis of media reports can correspondingly cast some light not only on how much physics is being reported, but on what branches of physics attract most popular attention.
- 2012 March, Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, in American Scientist[2], volume 100, number 2, page 146:
- The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.
- The physical aspects of a phenomenon or a system, especially those examined or studied scientifically.
- The physics of car crashes would not let Tom Cruise walk away like that.
- 1994, A.J Meadows, M.M Hancock-Beaulieu, editors, Front Page Physics: A Century of Physics in the News[3], page 3:
- An analysis of media reports can correspondingly cast some light not only on how much physics is being reported, but on what branches of physics attract most popular attention.
Antonyms
[edit]Hyponyms
[edit]- aerophysics
- astrophysics
- attophysics
- biophysics
- cartoon physics
- chemical physics
- classical physics
- econophysics
- ecophysics
- gastrophysics
- geophysics
- heliophysics
- hyperphysics
- macrophysics
- metaphysics
- microphysics
- modern physics
- neurophysics
- nuclear physics
- optics
- particle physics
- petrophysics
- photophysics
- physical chemistry
- plasmaphysics
- psychophysics
- quantum physics
- radiation physics
- radiobiophysics
- radiophysics
- soil physics
- spacetime physics
- tectonophysics
- theoretical physics
- thermodynamics
Meronyms
[edit]- See also Thesaurus:physics
Derived terms
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[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Welsh: ffiseg
Translations
[edit]branch of science
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Noun
[edit]physics
Verb
[edit]physics
- third-person singular simple present indicative of physic
Further reading
[edit]- “physics”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “physics”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “physics”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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