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Definition: Psychophysics |
PsychophysicsNoun1. The branch of psychology concerned with quantitative relations between physical stimuli and their psychological effects. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "psychophysics" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1980. (references) |
Note: Psychophysics \Psy`cho*phys"ics\, noun. [Psycho- physics.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | The science dealing with the correlation of the physical characteristics of a stimulus, e.g., frequency or intensity, with the response to the stimulus, in order to assess the psychologic factors involved in the relationship. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Psychophysics |
| English words defined with "psychophysics": E. H. Weber, Ernst Heinrich Weber ♦ Psychophysical, psychophysicist ♦ weber. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "psychophysics": AUDIOLOGIST ♦ psychoacoustic, psychoacoustics ♦ threshold sensitivity. (references) |
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| "Psychophysics" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Psychophysics" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (plural) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
psychophysics | 11 |
perception psychophysics | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "psychophysics"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
French | psychophysique. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ychophysicspsay | ||||
| Words rhyming with "psychophysics" (pronounced 'Psy`cho*phys"ics'): Aerodonetics, Aerodynamics, Aeromechanics, Aeronautics, Aerostatics, Agronomics, Alphabetics, Anagogics, Analytics, Apologetics, Architectonics, Aretaics, astrophysics, Athletics, Biostatics, Calisthenics, Cataphonics, Catechetics, Ceramics, Chromatics, Cinematics, Civics, Conics, Cynegetics, Enclitics, ethics, Geodetics, Geoponics, Gnomonics, graphics, harmonics, HOMILETICS, hygienics, hysterics, kinematics, kinetics, Lithochromatics, Logics, Loxodromics, macrobiotics, magnetics, mathematics, mechanics, Medics, Melodics, metaphysics, Metempirics, microphonics, mnemonics, Myodynamics. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-h-h-i-o-p-p-s-s-s-y-y" | |
-3 letters: hypophysis. | |
-4 letters: psychosis. | |
-5 letters: psychics. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-h-h-i-o-p-p-s-s-s-y-y" | |
+2 letters: psychophysicist. | |
+3 letters: psychophysicists. | |
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