physics
The branch of science concerned with the study of the properties and interactions of space, time, matter and energy.
Noun 2 meanings
The branch of science concerned with the study of the properties and interactions of space, time, matter and energy.
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.”
Etymology
1580s; from physic (see also -ics), from Middle English phisik, from Old French fisike (“natural science, art of healing”), from Latin physica (“study of nature”), from Ancient Greek φυσική (phusikḗ), feminine singular of φυσικός (phusikós, “natural; physical”), from Ancient Greek φύσις (phúsis, “origin; nature, property”), from Ancient Greek φύω (phúō, “produce; bear; grow”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to appear, become, rise up”).
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PHYSICS at a glance
PHYSICS has 7 letters and scores 17 points in Scrabble (P 3 + H 4 + Y 4 + S 1 + I 1 + C 3 + S 1) and 17 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,642 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with physics
All rhymes- POLITICS12
- STATISTICS12
- OLYMPICS17
- ECONOMICS15
- CRITICS11
- LYRICS11
- CHARACTERISTICS24
- TOPICS10
- ELECTRONICS15
- ETHICS11
- GRAPHICS16
- COMICS12
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