"physics" in the noun sense
1. purgative, cathartic, physic, aperient
a purging medicine stimulates evacuation of the bowels
"his favorite subject was physics"
2. physics, physical science
the physical properties, phenomena, and laws of something
"he studied the physics of radiation"
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