physical process

1. 1.

   a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states

   “events now in process”

   “the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls”

   Synonymsprocess

   Broaderphysical entity

   Narrowerphenomenonchelationdealignmentdecreasedegenerationdevelopmenteconomic processencapsulationexecutionhuman process

Questions about physical process

What does physical process mean?

physical process means "a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states".

What is another word for physical process?

Close synonyms include process. 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 process a common word?

physical process 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.