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[ adverb ] in accord with physical laws

Examples

"it is physically impossible"

Used in print

(The Sun, [Baltimore],...)

`` I feel good physically '' , Hansen added , `` but I think I 'll move better carrying a_little less weight than I'm carrying now '' .

(The Dallas Morning News,...)

Except for sophomore center Mike_Kelsey and fullback Mike_Rice , Meek expects the squad to be physically sound for Rice .

(The Christian Science Monitor,...)

Almost every film bearing the imprimatur of Hollywood is physically authentic - in_fact , impeccably so .

(Bonnie Prudden, "The Dancer and the Gymnast"...)

President_Kennedy has asked that we become a physically fit nation .

(Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)

Physically , a movie is possible because a series of images is projected one at_a_time at such a speed that the eye `` remembers '' the one that has gone before even as it registers the one now appearing .

Related terms

physical physical

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