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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The branch of physics that deals with objects and phenomena large enough to be measured and observed.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The physics of the relations of large masses, or of bodies as a whole, the problems of ultimate structure being ignored.

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  • noun physics The branch of physics that deals with those phenomena that can be directly observed.

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macro- +‎ physics

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