PHYSICS
\fˈɪzɪks], \fˈɪzɪks], \f_ˈɪ_z_ɪ_k_s]\
Definitions of PHYSICS
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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Used as sing. (orig.) equivalent to PHYSICAL SCIENCE, i.e. the science of the order of nature: usually sig. (as distinguished from chemistry) study of matter and the general properties of matter and the general properties of matter as affected by energy-also called natural philosophy.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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The study of the laws and phenomena of nature, but especially of forces and general properties of matter.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The science (often called natural philosophy) which takes cognizance of the properties of matter, the forces that act on material bodies, the conditions of their rest and motion, etc. In recent use the term excludes chemistry, which deals with the atomic constitution and chemical reactions of material substances. [Gr.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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