physics
Multiple Entries:physics physic
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
physics/ˈfɪzɪks/
▶plural noun [treated as sing.] the branch of science concerned with the nature and properties of matter and energy.
■ the physical properties and phenomena of something.
– derivatives
physicist noun.
physicist noun.
– origin C15 (denoting natural science in general): pl. of obs. physic ‘physical (thing)’, suggested by L. physica (see physic).
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
physic /ˈfɪzɪk/ archaic
▶noun medicinal drugs or medical treatment. ▶verb (physics, physicking, physicked) treat with a medicine.
– origin ME: from OFr. fisique ‘medicine’, from L. physica, from Gk phusikē (epistēmē) ‘(knowledge) of nature’, from phusis ‘nature’.
'physics' also found in these Oxford entries:
a
- A-bomb
- absolute temperature
- absolute value
- absolute zero
- absorb
- absorbance
- absorption
- AC
- accelerate
- accelerator
- aclinic line
- acoustic
- acoustic impedance
- actinometer
- adhesion
- adiabatic
- admittance
- advanced gas-cooled reactor
- aerodynamic
- aerodynamics
- AF
- AGR
- airglow
- alias
- aliasing
- alpha particle
- alpha radiation
- altimetry
- amplitude
- anechoic
- angle of incidence
- angle of reflection
- angle of refraction
- angle of repose
- angstrom
- angular
- anharmonic
- anisotropic
- annihilate
- anti-
- antiferromagnetic
- antigravity
- antimatter
- antinode
- antiparallel
- antiparticle
- antiproton
- antiquark
- antisymmetric
