Physic vs Physics - What's the difference?
physic | physics |
(countable) A medicine or drug, especially a cathartic or purgative.
(uncountable) The art or profession of healing disease; medicine.
(obsolete) A physician.
To cure or heal; to treat or administer medicine, especially to purge.
The branch of science concerned with the study of properties and interactions of space, time, matter and energy.
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Of or pertaining to the physical aspects of a phenomenon or a system, especially those studied in physics.
(physic)
As nouns the difference between physic and physics
is that physic is a medicine or drug, especially a cathartic or purgative while physics is the branch of science concerned with the study of properties and interactions of space, time, matter and energy.As verbs the difference between physic and physics
is that physic is to cure or heal; to treat or administer medicine, especially to purge while physics is third-person singular of physic.As an adjective physic
is relating to or concerning existent materials; physical.physic
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Alternative forms
* physick (obsolete)Noun
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Derived terms
* physicianVerb
physics
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(wikipedia physics)Alternative forms
* physicks (obsolete)Noun
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- 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.
- The physics of car crashes would not let Tom Cruise walk away like that.