PHYSICAL PHENOMENON • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Physical phenomenon

... currents of electricity, or when subjected to high temperatures, or has by mechanical force been pushed together, or, as it is called, upset, becomes extremely crystalline. Under all of these circumstances it is subjected to one physical phenomenon, that of motion. It would seem that if a bar of iron were struck, the blow would shake the whole mass, and consequently the relative position of the particles remain unchanged, but this is not the case. When the ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 • Various

... every disease he knew, until, exhausting the ordinary complaints, he went into particulars in which he was personally much interested; but I was unfortunately unable to prescribe medicines which produce the physical phenomenon next to his heart. ...

— The Discovery of the Source of the Nile • John Hanning Speke