1. Relating to the body, rather than to the mind, the soul, or the feelings.
2. Existing in the real material world, rather than as an idea or notion, and able to be touched and seen; physical evidence.
3. Involving or needing a lot of bodily strength or energy; hard physical work. 4. Involving a lot of bodily contact or aggression: "Some of the players were a little too physical."
5. Tending to touch people or involving touching; especially, in an affectionate or sexual way.
6. A description of sciences; such as, physics and chemistry both of which deal with nonliving things such as energy and matter.
7. Of or relating to matter and energy or the sciences dealing with them, especially physics.
8. Informal, or slang, usage: a physical examination, get "physical" with exercise, etc.

Another slang usage of "physical" as expressed in a popular 1981 song.

A biometric tool that is important for physical-access control.

A branch of economics that deals with various production activities; such as, the influences that physical locations might have on factories.

Those who isolate various kinds of traits and make it possible to understand the compositions of human populations and to formulate hypotheses concerning their future: The information accumulated by physical anthropologists provide available facts about the groups inhabiting the world as well as the individuals composing those groups.

The growth studies, both of humans and other primates, engage the attention of many physical anthropologists in medical and dental schools as well as in independent clinics and universities.

The branch of human culture that studies the development over time of the bodily characteristics and the differences in appearances among the various people of the world, as distinct from cultural differences: Physical anthropology is concerned with the related problems of tracing the emergence of mankind as an animal form and the nature, causes, and significance of past and present variations in the biological characteristics of the various human species and breeds.

Some law enforcement agencies often call upon physical anthropologists to identify skeletal remains because of the kinds of information which may be derived from a skeleton about the gender, age, stature, race, bone diseases, individual structural peculiarities; such as, right-handed or left-handedness; and the major blood types which can be determined because blood group substances are present in several tissues and fluids of the bodiy, includig the spongy tissue found inside the vertebrae and the joints of the long bones.

An Auto-ID Center-designed method of describing products in a way computers can understand.

PML is based on the widely accepted eXtensible Markup Language used to share data over the internet in a format all computers can use.

The idea is to create a computer language that companies can use to describe products so that computer can search for, say, all "softdrinks" in inventory.

Narcissism manifested as a preoccupation with one's appearance and exhibitionism.

The treatment of physical dysfunction or injury by the use of therapeutic exercise and the application of modalities, intended to restore or facilitate normal function or development.