PHYSICAL SCIENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does physical science mean? 

• PHYSICAL SCIENCE (noun)
  The noun PHYSICAL SCIENCE has 1 sense:

1. the physical properties, phenomena, and laws of something

  Familiarity information: PHYSICAL SCIENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHYSICAL SCIENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The physical properties, phenomena, and laws of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

physical science; physics

Context example:

he studied the physics of radiation

Hypernyms ("physical science" is a kind of...):

natural science (the sciences involved in the study of the physical world and its phenomena)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "physical science"):

acoustics (the study of the physical properties of sound)

 Context examples 

Physics as applied to biological problems; an interdisciplinary science that applies theories and methods of the physical sciences to questions of biology.

(Biophysics, NCI Thesaurus)

I accompanied the whale-fishers on several expeditions to the North Sea; I voluntarily endured cold, famine, thirst, and want of sleep; I often worked harder than the common sailors during the day and devoted my nights to the study of mathematics, the theory of medicine, and those branches of physical science from which a naval adventurer might derive the greatest practical advantage.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)