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    PHYSICAL CHANGE

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A change from one state (solid or liquid or gas) to another without a change in chemical compositionplay

    Synonyms:

    phase change; phase transition; physical change; state change

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting natural processes

    Hypernyms ("physical change" is a kind of...):

    action; activity; natural action; natural process (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings))

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "physical change"):

    freeze; freezing (the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid)

    liquefaction (the conversion of a solid or a gas into a liquid)

    melt; melting; thaw; thawing (the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid)

    evaporation; vapor; vaporisation; vaporization; vapour (the process of becoming a vapor)

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