Size vs Physics - What's the difference?
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(obsolete, outside, dialects) An assize.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, page 560:
(obsolete) A regulation determining the amount of money paid in fees, taxes etc.
(obsolete) A fixed standard for the magnitude, quality, quantity etc. of goods, especially food and drink.
* Shakespeare
The dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is.
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, title= (obsolete) A regulation, piece of ordinance.
A specific set of dimensions for a manufactured article, especially clothing.
(graph theory) A number of edges in a graph.
(figurative, dated) Degree of rank, ability, character, etc.
* L'Estrange
* Jonathan Swift
An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, used for measuring the size of pearls.
To adjust the size of; to make a certain size.
* Francis Bacon
To classify or arrange by size.
# (military) To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature.
# (mining) To sift (pieces of ore or metal) in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.
(colloquial) To approximate the dimensions, estimate the size of.
To take a greater size; to increase in size.
* John Donne
(UK, Cambridge University, obsolete) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.
(obsolete) To swell; to increase the bulk of.
A thin, weak glue used as primer for paper or canvas intended to be painted upon.
Wallpaper paste.
The thickened crust on coagulated blood.
Any viscous substance, such as gilder's varnish.
To apply glue or other primer to a surface which is to be painted.
The branch of science concerned with the study of properties and interactions of space, time, matter and energy.
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, author=(Jeremy Bernstein)
, title=A Palette of Particles
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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 size and physics
is that size is subject, topic while physics is the branch of science concerned with the study of properties and interactions of space, time, matter and energy or physics can be .As a verb physics is
(physic).size
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ).Noun
(en noun)- I know you would have women above the law, but it is all a lye; I heard his lordship say at size , that no one is above the law.
- to scant my sizes
Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].}}
- men of a less size and quality
- the middling or lower size of people
- (Knight)
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(siz)- a statute to size weights, and measures
- Our desires give them fashion, and so, / As they wax lesser, fall, as they size , grow.
- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
Etymology 2
Old Italian , a glue used by painters, shortened from (assisa), from (assiso), to make to sit, to seat, to place.Noun
(en noun)Verb
(siz)See also
* 1000 English basic wordsphysics
English
(wikipedia physics)Alternative forms
* physicks (obsolete)Noun
(-)citation, passage=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.}}
- 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.