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Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#PHYSICSCategory:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰuH-#PHYSICS

1580s; from physic (see also -ics), from Middle EnglishCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#PHYSICS phisik, from Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#PHYSICS fisike (“natural science, art of healing”), from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#PHYSICS physica (“study of nature”), from Ancient GreekCategory:English terms derived from Ancient Greek#PHYSICS φυσική (phusikḗ), feminine singular of φυσικός (phusikós, “natural; physical”), from Ancient GreekCategory:English terms derived from Ancient Greek#PHYSICS φύσις (phúsis, “origin; nature, property”), from Ancient GreekCategory:English terms derived from Ancient Greek#PHYSICS φύω (phúō, “produce; bear; grow”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#PHYSICS *bʰuH- (“to appear, become, rise up”).

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physics (uncountable)Category:English lemmas#PHYSICSCategory:English nouns#PHYSICSCategory:English uncountable nouns#PHYSICSCategory:English uncountable nouns#PHYSICSCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PHYSICSCategory:Pages with entries#PHYSICSCategory:Pages with 1 entry#PHYSICS

  2. 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.
    Category:English terms with usage examples#PHYSICS
    • 1994, A.J Meadows, M.M Hancock-Beaulieu, editors, Front Page Physics: A Century of Physics in the News‎, 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.
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    • 2012 March, Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, in American Scientist‎, 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.
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    • 2017 October 10, Vanessa Potter, “My sudden synesthesia: how I went blind and started hearing colors”, in CNN‎, archived from the original on 20 August 2025:
      Daniel Hajas is a physics undergraduate at Sussex and has been blind since he was 16. He first heard about Giles and the SSDs when Giles was looking for blind students to test the devices.
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  3. 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.Category:English terms with usage examples#PHYSICS
    • 1994, A.J Meadows, M.M Hancock-Beaulieu, editors, Front Page Physics: A Century of Physics in the News‎, 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.
      Category:English terms with quotations#PHYSICS

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physicsCategory:English non-lemma forms#PHYSICSCategory:English noun forms#PHYSICSCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PHYSICSCategory:Pages with entries#PHYSICSCategory:Pages with 1 entry#PHYSICS

  1. plural of physic

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physicsCategory:English non-lemma forms#PHYSICSCategory:English verb forms#PHYSICSCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PHYSICSCategory:Pages with entries#PHYSICSCategory:Pages with 1 entry#PHYSICS

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of physic

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