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physico-

Physical; physical and …

English physics.

The most common form here is physico-chemical (also often unhyphenated as physicochemical), relating to physics and chemistry or to physical chemistry. Other examples are physico-mechanical, pertaining to the dynamics of physical forces, or the branch of science that deals with mechanical phenomena; and physico-mathematical, relating to the application of mathematics to physics.

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