physics
Pronunciation:
/ˈfɪz.ɪks/noun
Definitions
A medicine or drug, especially a cathartic or purgative.
The art or profession of healing disease; medicine.
Natural philosophy; physics.
A physician.
verb
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To cure or heal.
To administer medicine to, especially a purgative.
noun
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The branch of science concerned with the study of the properties and interactions of space, time, matter and energy.
Example: 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.
The physical aspects of a phenomenon or a system, especially those studied scientifically.
Example: The physics of car crashes would not let Tom Cruise walk away like that.