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physical

physical

95 3.4
About the science that studies matter, energy, and motion
  • adjective
  • /ˈfɪzɪkəl/
translation icon : físico
  • The physical education teacher instructs children in physical activity to promote motor skills and physical fitness.
  • physical sciences
  • physical properties
  • physical quantities

However, those coordinates have no good physical interpretation.

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Examples

  • OK, let's switch back to the physical characteristics of sound.

  • It describes the real physical state of real physical things like electrons.

  • And he thought these lines of force were real physical things, right?

  • And when with the film, it's a physical thing that you see.

  • So this includes a physical constant here, the mass.

  • So scientists have found a bunch of physical changes associated with COVID.

  • An exploration into the building blocks of our physical universe.

  • From the smallest to the largest physical systems, maps reflect the human drive to know.

    Academic text (1990)
  • A large part of this attention has been to define physical fitness in health-related terms.

    Academic text (1990)
  • His research focuses on the physical laws governing motion and energy.

Compounds

physical therapy
  • Specialized
49 3.7

A treatment that uses exercise and massage to help people move and reduce pain

physical therapist
  • Specialized
27 3.4

A person who helps people regain movement and strength after injury using exercises and hands-on care

Touch between people or between a person and an object

How healthy and fit a person's body is

14 2.8

The parts of a person you can touch, not their mind or spirit

A school subject that teaches exercise and games to keep the body healthy

Good health and strength from regular exercise and healthy eating

Planned activity that uses your muscles to keep you fit and healthy

The body's strength and skill for doing tasks like running or lifting

physical property
  • Specialized
4 3.7

A quality in a material you can see or measure without changing it, like density

physical change
  • Specialized
4 3.4

A change where something changes state or appearance but stays the same substance

4 3.2

A feeling of romantic or sexual interest based on someone's looks

Using a lot of effort with your body during hard work or exercise

physical process
  • Specialized
3 4.0

A change or movement in matter and energy that happens in nature and in experiments, like melting

physical phenomenon
  • Specialized
1 4.4

A natural event that involves matter and energy and can be seen or measured

A situation that cannot happen because it breaks the laws of physics

physical chemistry
  • Specialized
1 4.8

Study of how chemicals behave and change using physics and math

1 3.4

A process that helps people get back strength and movement after illness, injury, or disability

Things you can touch and own like books or phones

The parts that make up a person or thing and how they are arranged

The study of Earth's natural features and how they change, like mountains and rivers

A short pause from work to move, stretch, or rest

physical anthropology
  • Specialized
6.3

Study of human origins and how bodies changed over time

physical distancing
  • Literature
3.7

Keeping space between people to avoid spreading illness

physical restoration
  • Specialized
4.1

Care that helps someone regain movement and strength after an injury

physical pendulum
  • Specialized
7.7

A solid object that swings around a fixed horizontal axis that is not through its middle

physical topology
  • Specialized
6.7

How people place devices and cables in a computer network

physical value
  • Specialized
8.6

The amount to replace a building or machine after subtracting wear and age

Surface Forms

physical positive
physically positive

Morphology

physical = physic (semi-transparent) = physic + al

This scientific sense is somewhat accessible because learners may connect 'physical' with the learned science vocabulary family around 'physics', although the exact base 'physic' is not a common modern cue.

Etymology

Physical comes from the Greek physis meaning 'nature', and the science physics studies nature, matter, and energy. So physical is used for things that belong to the sciences that study matter and energy.