Concept information
Preferred term
physical phenomenon
Definition
- A physical phenomenon is, for a given observation, a major aspect resulting from energy transfers on a macroscopic scale (optical phenomenon for example), with other phenomena intervening, on other scales, as factors of complementary aspects of what is observed. The bodies concerned solely by a physical phenomenon do not, in principle, undergo any transformation of their nature, their change being linked above all to their way of reacting - without alteration - to the effect of this or that form of energy; these modifications are, for this reason, often reversible. (Adapted from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenon)
Narrower concepts
- adsorption
- advection
- boundary layer
- compaction
- compression
- condensation
- Coriolis
- crystal growth
- crystallization
- desiccation
- diffraction
- dust flux
- energy flux
- evaporation
- fluorescence
- fractionation
- fractionation effect
- fragmentation
- frequency domain
- geothermal gradient
- gravity flow
- heat flux
- high-frequency
- irradiation
- luminescence
- magnetism
- mass accumulation
- overflow
- percolation
- phase relationship
- pressure anomaly
- pressure gradient
- radiation
- radioactive disintegration
- redeposition
- red noise
- resuspension
- seepage
- sequestration
- shear
- sublimation
- white noise
In other languages
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French
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/QX8-RNL0WXJ4-2
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