1. 1物理學家

    A scientist who has special training in physics — the study of how the world works at a deep level: light, heat, motion, atoms, forces. You will meet physicists in labs, universities, and space programmes; it is a job-word, not a street-word. An English , William Whewell, made this word in 1840 so that physics could have a person-word, the way chemistry has chemist. Though actually, people still mix it up with physician because the two look like sisters: a physicist studies physics; a physician is a medical doctor. They share an old root around “nature”, but the jobs are not the same.

core核心畫面

組成From physics + -ist. Coined by William Whewell in 1840.

同家族的字

  • physicsthe science this person studies
  • physicianshares an old root around nature, but this one is a medical doctor

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

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physicistnoun/ˈfɪzɪsɪst/

  • 1

    A person whose occupation specializes in the science of physics, especially at a professional level.

    • Thus we may say, that while the Naturalist employs principally the ideas of resemblance and life, the Physicist proceeds upon the ideas of force, matter, and the properties of matter.
    • Physicists find themselves called in to deal with such varied problems as the reduction of noise in diesel railcars, investigation of the Hertzian stresses set up by wheel-rail contact and improvement of the insulation of fish and banana vans.
  • 2

    archaicA believer in the theory that the fundamental phenomena of life are to be explained upon purely chemical and physical principles (opposed to vitalist).

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