Physicsとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• physicks (obsolete)

語源

1580s; from physic (see also -ics), from 中期英語 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”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈfɪz.ɪks/

名詞

physics (uncountable)

1. The branch of science concerned with the study of the properties and interactions of space, time, matter and energy.

   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.

   • 1994, A.J Meadows, M.M Hancock-Beaulieu, editors, Front Page Physics: A Century of Physics in the News‎, page 3:

     An analysis of media reports can correspondingly cast some light not only on how much physics is being reported, but on what branches of physics attract most popular attention.

   • 2012 March, Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 2, page 146:

     The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.

   • 2017 October 10, Vanessa Potter, “My sudden synesthesia: how I went blind and started hearing colors”, in CNN‎:

     Daniel Hajas is a physics undergraduate at Sussex and has been blind since he was 16. He first heard about Giles and the SSDs when Giles was looking for blind students to test the devices.

2. 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.

   • 1994, A.J Meadows, M.M Hancock-Beaulieu, editors, Front Page Physics: A Century of Physics in the News‎, page 3:

     An analysis of media reports can correspondingly cast some light not only on how much physics is being reported, but on what branches of physics attract most popular attention.

反意語

• nonphysics

下位語

Meronyms

• See also Thesaurus:physics

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

• → Welsh: ffiseg

名詞

physics

1. plural of physic

動詞

physics

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of physic

Further reading

• “physics”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “physics”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “physics”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.