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(Egyptians suffered with a variety of physical complaints despite healthier habits among ancient nations)
(geography includes mapmakers, scientists, explorers of the earth and provides a way to look at both the physical world and the people who live in various parts this globe)
(mathematics is the deductive study of quantities, magnitudes, and shapes as determined by the use of numbers and symbols while every branch of science and engineering depends on mathematics; measurement is the process of associating numbers with physical quantities and phenomena and measurement is fundamental to the sciences; to engineering, construction, and other technical fields; and to almost all everyday activities)
Word Entries containing the term: “physical
2. Scientific method, formlation of physical laws and generalizations
The formulation of physical laws from the generalization of the phenomena: physical laws are the way nature usually behaves based on what has been observed in the past.
This entry is located in the following unit: Measurements and Mathematics Terms (page 1)
physical anthropology
The study of the physical characteristics of human beings and their ancestors, and of the variability of these characteristics among and within identifiable groups.
physical metallurgy
1. The properties of metals and their applications.
2. The adaptation of metals for everyday use.
3. Concerned with the ways metals and alloys are worked mechanically, their heat treatment, and their testing.

Physical metallurgy begins with the dressing of ore, using physical methods; such as, crushing, grinding, and separation by gravity to separate the various minerals that are found in a specific ore.

This entry is located in the following unit: Metallurgy Topics or Metal Technology + (page 2)
physical therapist (s) physical therapists (pl) (nouns)
Professional health-care scientists who use physical manipulations, heat, cold, etc. to treat a wide variety of physical health problems.
This entry is located in the following unit: Health Care Providers, Health-Care Providers, Healthcare Providers (page 3)
physical vapor deposition
A method of depositing thin semiconductor photovoltaic films.

With this method, physical processes, such as thermal evaporation or bombardment of ions, are used to deposit elemental semiconductor material on a substrate.

This entry is located in the following unit: Photovoltaic Conversion Efficiency Terms + (page 16)
physical weathering
  • Temperature changes, weakening rocks by expansion and contraction.
  • Frost, wedging rocks pushing them apart by the expansion of water when freezing.
  • Unloading, the loosening of rock layers by the release of pressure after the erosion and removal of those layers.
This entry is located in the following unit: Meteorology or Weather Terms + (page 5)
sins of physical violence (s) (noun), sins of physical violences (pl)
There have been, and currently are, many reports of murders by stabbings and shootings of people, or other methods, in many places of the world: The sins of physical violences are happening with no justifications, or no logical reasons, and surely the villains will be punished while alive, if apprehended by the police, and after their deaths by God.
This entry is located in the following unit: sin-, sinn- (page 1)