Physique vs Physics - What's the difference?
physique | physics |
The natural constitution, or physical structure, of a person.
(bodybuilding): The trained muscular structure of a person's body.
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 physique and physics
is that physique is the natural constitution, or physical structure, of a person while physics is the branch of science concerned with the study of properties and interactions of space, time, matter and energy.As a verb physics is
third-person singular of physic.physique
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Noun
(wikipedia physique) (en noun)Synonyms
* bodyphysics
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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.