physics meaning

• Noun: physics  fiziks
  1. The science of matter and energy and their interactions
     "his favourite subject was physics"
     - natural philosophy 
  2. The physical properties, phenomena, and laws of something
     "he studied the physics of radiation"
     - physical science
  Noun: physic  fizik
  1. A purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels
     - purgative, cathartic, aperient

  See also: physical, physicist

  Type of: medicament, medication, medicinal drug, medicine, natural science

  Encyclopedia: Physic

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  [Electronics]
  The science of energy and matter and their interactions. Physics is subdivided into several fields, including mechanics, thermodynamics, acoustics, optics, and electricity/magnetism. Many subdivisions are within the traditional fields.
  
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  [Medicine]
  n pl but sing or pl in constr : a science that deals with matter and energy and their interactions in the fields of mechanics, acoustics, optics, heat, electricity, magnetism, radiation, atomic structure, and nuclear phenomena
  

• atomic physics:    Noun: atomic physi ...
• cluster physics:     singular noun&nbs ...
• department of physics:    Noun: department o ...

Examples

1. he is bound up in the study of nuclear physics.
2. he was awarded the nobel prize for physics.
3. physics is very muddled again at the moment.
4. i have only a rudimentary grasp of physics.
5. she won her licence in physics in 1893.