Noun natural philosophy has 1 sense
  1. physics, physical science, natural philosophy - the science of matter and energy and their interactions
    --1 is a kind of natural science
    --1 has particulars:
     acoustics; astronomy, uranology; aeronautics, astronautics; biophysics; cryogenics, cryogeny; crystallography; electromagnetism, electromagnetics; electronics; electrostatics; mechanics; nuclear physics, atomic physics, nucleonics; optics; particle physics, high-energy physics, high energy physics; plasma physics; quantum physics; rheology; solid-state physics; statistical mechanics; thermodynamics
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