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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The branch of physics that deals with objects and phenomena large enough to be measured and observed.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The physics of the relations of large masses, or of bodies as a whole, the problems of ultimate structure being ignored.
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- noun physics  The branch of physics that deals with thosephenomena that can be directlyobserved .
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								At various stages in this sequence basic facts about atomic physics, macrophysics, chemistry, geology and biology would fit right into this, the greatest of histories and the best story ever told… A call to action in the Journal of Clinical Investigation - The Panda's Thumb 2006 
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								At various stages in this sequence basic facts about atomic physics, macrophysics, chemistry, geology and biology would fit right into this, the greatest of histories and the best story ever told… A call to action in the Journal of Clinical Investigation - The Panda's Thumb 2006 
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								At various stages in this sequence basic facts about atomic physics, macrophysics, chemistry, geology and biology would fit right into this, the greatest of histories and the best story ever told… A call to action in the Journal of Clinical Investigation - The Panda's Thumb 2006 
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								Thus a - or u-indeterminacies may be valid in micro - physics but not in macrophysics. INDETERMINACY IN PHYSICS MAX JAMMER 1968 
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