physical change

Questions about physical change

What does physical change mean?

physical change means "a change from one state (solid or liquid or gas) to another without a change in chemical composition".

What is another word for physical change?

Close synonyms include phase change, phase transition, state change. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is physical change a common word?

physical change is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.