physical property

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physical property - any property used to characterize matter and energy and their interactionsproperty - a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class; "a study of the physical properties of atomic particles"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 bodydissolubility, solubleness - the property of being dissoluble; "he measure the dissolubility of sugar in water"drippiness - the physical property of being soft and drippyreflectivity, reflexion, reflection - the ability to reflect beams or raysbending, deflexion, deflection - the property of being bent or deflectedtemperature - the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity)enthalpy, heat content, total heat, H - (thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity equal to the internal energy of a system plus the product of its volume and pressure; "enthalpy is the amount of energy in a system capable of doing mechanical work"randomness, entropy, S - (thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity representing the amount of energy in a system that is no longer available for doing mechanical work; "entropy increases as matter and energy in the universe degrade to an ultimate state of inert uniformity"perceptibility - the property of being perceptible by the mind or the sensesinvisibility, invisibleness - the quality of not being perceivable by the eyebrightness level, luminance, luminosity, luminousness, brightness, light - the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light; "its luminosity is measured relative to that of our sun"inaudibility, inaudibleness - the quality of not being perceptible by the earimperceptibility - the property of being imperceptible by the mind or the sensesreluctivity - (physics) the resistance of a material to the establishment of a magnetic field in itsensitivity, sensitiveness - the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences; "a galvanometer of extreme sensitivity"; "the sensitiveness of Mimosa leaves does not depend on a change of growth"magnetisation, magnetization - the physical property of being magneticelasticity, snap - the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed; "the waistband had lost its snap"malleability, plasticity - the property of being physically malleable; the property of something that can be worked or hammered or shaped without breakinginelasticity - the lack of elasticityunmalleability - a lack of malleabilitymass - the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational fieldweight - the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravitymomentum - the product of a body's mass and its velocity; "the momentum of the particles was deduced from meteoritic velocities"fugacity - the tendency of a gas to expand or escapelength - the linear extent in space from one end to the other; the longest dimension of something that is fixed in place; "the length of the table was 5 feet"

physical property

physical property

physical property

physical property

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noun any property used to characterize matter and energy and their interactions

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