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Physical process

noun

A sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states. Synonym: process. "The process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls"

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"Physical process" Quotes from Famous Books

... phylogenetic method; this, he thinks, is "a mere by-path," and is "not necessary at all for the explanation of the facts of embryology," which are the direct consequence of physiological principles. What His takes to be a simple physical process—for instance, the folding of the germinal layers (in the formation of the medullary tube, alimentary tube, etc.)—is, as a matter of fact, the direct result of the growth of the various cells which form those organic structures; but these growth-motions have ...

— The Evolution of Man, V.1. • Ernst Haeckel

... studying its anatomical structure. He examines with a microscope the cells of those tissues in the branches and leaves in order that he may explain the growth of the tree and its development from the germ. The storm which whips its branches is to him a physical process for which he seeks the causes, far removed. The sea is to him a substance which he resolves in his laboratory into its chemical elements and which he explains by tracing the geological changes on the surface of ...

— The Photoplay - A Psychological Study • Hugo Muensterberg

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