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PHYSICAL PROPERTY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any property used to characterize matter and energy and their interactions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("physical property" is a kind of...):
property (a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "physical property"):
length (the linear extent in space from one end to the other; the longest dimension of something that is fixed in place)
fugacity (the tendency of a gas to expand or escape)
momentum (the product of a body's mass and its velocity)
weight (the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity)
mass (the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field)
unmalleability (a lack of malleability)
inelasticity (the lack of elasticity)
malleability; plasticity (the property of being physically malleable; the property of something that can be worked or hammered or shaped without breaking)
elasticity; snap (the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed)
magnetisation; magnetization (the physical property of being magnetic)
sensitiveness; sensitivity (the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences)
reluctivity ((physics) the resistance of a material to the establishment of a magnetic field in it)
imperceptibility (the property of being imperceptible by the mind or the senses)
inaudibility; inaudibleness (the quality of not being perceptible by the ear)
brightness; brightness level; light; luminance; luminosity; luminousness (the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light)
invisibility; invisibleness (the quality of not being perceivable by the eye)
perceptibility (the property of being perceptible by the mind or the senses)
entropy; randomness; S ((thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity representing the amount of energy in a system that is no longer available for doing mechanical work)
enthalpy; H; heat content; total heat ((thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity equal to the internal energy of a system plus the product of its volume and pressure)
temperature (the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity))
bending; deflection; deflexion (the property of being bent or deflected)
reflection; reflectivity; reflexion (the ability to reflect beams or rays)
drippiness (the physical property of being soft and drippy)
dissolubility; solubleness (the property of being dissoluble)
absorption factor; absorptivity ((physics) the property of a body that determines the fraction of the incident radiation or sound flux absorbed or absorbable by the body)
