Natural philosophy Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the science of matter and energy and their interactions
    physics.
    • his favorite subject was physics

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  1. originally, the study of nature in general; in modern usage, that branch of physical science, commonly called physics, which treats of the phenomena and laws of matter and considers those effects only which are unaccompanied by any change of a chemical nature; contrasted with mental and moral philosophy.

Webster 1913