单词 | physicist |
释义 | physicistn.ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > study > person who studies > [noun] physicist1716 remedist1716 clinician1875 1716 M. Davies Diss. Physick 12 in Athenæ Britannicæ III Anatomists, Naturalists, Physicists, Medicinists. 2. a. An expert in or student of physics (physics n. 1b). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > [noun] > physics > scientist involved with physicist1837 1837 London & Edinb. Philos. Mag. 11 262 The much-wished-for fall of one of these meteors would without doubt furnish the chemist and physicist [Fr. physicien] with the means of explaining certain points quite unknown. 1840 W. Whewell Philos. Inductive Sci. I. Pref. 71 We might perhaps still use physician as the equivalent of the French physicien..but probably it would be better to coin a new word. Thus we may say that..the Physicist proceeds upon the ideas of force, matter, and the properties of matter. 1853 tr. M. V. Regnault in Jrnl. Franklin Inst. 56 31 A great number of physicists have employed themselves during the last century, in the examination of the specific heats of elastic fluids. 1939 E. D. Laborde tr. E. de Martonne Shorter Physical Geogr. (rev. ed.) xv. 217 Though apparently rigid, the mass of ice is really what physicists call a viscous fluid. 1978 H. M. Rosenberg Solid State (ed. 2) i. 1 For an easy life physicists have nearly always limited their work to explanations of the properties of simple regular patterns of atoms. 2004 PC Mag. (Nexis) 13 July m12 One path toward that future is what Tim Berners-Lee—the Oxford-educated physicist who created the basic software protocols behind the World Wide Web—calls the Semantic Web. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > [noun] > physical scientist or natural philosopher physiciana1425 man of science1482 natural philosopher?1541 naturalist1581 physiologer1598 physicist1858 1858 C. Kingsley Lett. 24 Dec. This Christmas night is the one of all the year which sets a physicist, as I am, on facing the fact of miracle. 1860 R. F. Burton in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 1859 29 23 There remained then for the English physicist the honour of depicting by an admirable generalization the true features of the African interior. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > [noun] > a doctrine of physical phenomena > one holding physicist1871 1871 J. Morley Carlyle in Crit. Misc. 229 The excessive pretensions and unwarranted certitudes of the physicist. 1872 H. A. Nicholson Introd. Study Biol. i. 16 No physicist has hitherto succeeded in explaining any fundamental vital phenomenon upon purely physical and chemical principles. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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