physics
pronunciation
How to pronounce physics in British English:
UK [ˈfɪzɪks]
How to pronounce physics in American English:
US [ˈfɪzɪks]
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- Noun:
- the science of matter and energy and their interactions
Word Origin
- physics
- physics: [16] Physics comes ultimately from Greek phúsis ‘nature’, a derivative of phúein ‘bring forth, cause to grow’. The science of studying the natural world was hence phusiké epistémē ‘knowledge of nature’, and phusiké, turned into a noun, passed into English via Latin physica and Old French fisique as fisike. By now its meaning had shifted from ‘natural science’ to ‘medicine’, a sense preserved in the now archaic physic [13] and in the derivative physician [13], and the modern plural form, which restores the original meaning, was a direct translation of Greek tà phusiká ‘the physics’, the title of Aristotle’s writings on natural science. Physique [19] was borrowed from French.=> physique
- physics (n.)
- 1580s, "natural science," from physic in sense of "natural science." Also see -ics. Based on Latin physica (neuter plural), from Greek ta physika, literally "the natural things," name of Aristotle's treatise on nature. Specific sense of "science treating of properties of matter and energy" is from 1715.
Example
- 1. In physics , energy can be neither created nor destroyed , it simply changes form .
- 2. He left the job to earn a doctorate in physics at northwestern university and started freelancing in 2008 .
- 3. What would finding the higgs boson mean for physics ?
- 4. Eric mazur is a professor of physics at harvard .
- 5. Atmospheric physics and meteorology are complex .