单词 | physical point |
释义 | > as lemmasphysical point physical point n. now rare a point in the physical world, i.e. one having a very small spatial extent (often contrasted with mathematical point); a mass occupying such a point. ΚΠ a1703 R. Hooke Present State Nat. Philos. in Posthumous Wks. (1705) 66 A Physical Point, or Material Cone, or Pyramid..will have Extension and Bluntness [as contrasted with a mathematical point]. 1739 D. Hume Treat. Human Nature I. ii. 77 A real extension, such as a physical point is suppos'd to be, can never exist without parts, different from each other. 1812 H. Davy Elements Chem. Philos. 56 Whether matter consists of indivisible corpuscles, or physical points. 1851 W. J. M. Rankine in London, Edinb., & Dublin Philos. Mag. 4th Ser. 1 443 The fundamental suppositions of the hypothesis of molecular vortices are the following:—First. That each atom of matter consists of a nucleus or central physical point enveloped by an elastic atmosphere, which is retained around it by attraction. 1992 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 53 276 The first is that it appears certain to reason that an infinite number of physical points composes an infinite extension. We cannot comprehend, however, an infinite extension and consequently the number of physical points should be finite. < as lemmas |
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