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physical

Refers to devices at the electronic, or machine, level. Contrast with logical. See logical vs. physical.

physical
1. of or concerned with matter and energy
2. of or relating to physics
(jargon)physical - The opposite of logical in its jargon sense. Compare real, virtual, and transparent.

It is said that what you can touch and see is real; what you can see but not touch is virtual; what you can touch but not see is transparent; and what you can neither touch nor see is probably imaginary.


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``He brings some physicalness and some freshness to the secondary.
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There's no sermonizing or analysis, just the physicalness of the back-breaking work, the yearning for education, for place.
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Thus we conceive emotions as the most elusive and nebulous of all mental states--purely immaterial feelings somehow separate from the physicalness of the brain.
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