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BIOPHYSICS
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Physics as applied to biological problems
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("biophysics" is a kind of...):
natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)
Derivation:
biophysicist (a physicist who applies the methods of physics to biology)