AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -physis (countable and uncountable, plural physes) (Ancient Greek philosophy and theology) Nature, as contrasted with law or custom. (anatomy) The epiphyseal plate, a hyaline cartilage plate in the metaphysis at each end of a long bone, found in children and adolescents.

Detailed explanation-2: -Word of the day: “physis”-ancient Greek term for “nature", from the verbal noun , “phusis", meaning “growing", “becoming", itself from , “to grow", “to appear".

Detailed explanation-3: -In Greek, the word that later got translated into “nature” is phusis (), based on the verbal root for “growing, producing”, phuein (derived from the Indo-European root bheu, ancestor of the English verb “be”), with a suffix indicating the “objective realization of an abstract concept” (Benveniste, 1948).

Detailed explanation-4: -The word physics itself is derived from the Greek word, u (phusis) meaning nature. The Greeks gave more than a name to the study of physics for it is with them that the abstract development of physics began.

Detailed explanation-5: -The word physics is derived from a Greek word (Physica), meaning “nature". Physics can also be defined as a natural science that studies matter, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force.