phase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fāz
ipa: /feɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
homophone: faze
Forms: form: phases
Etymology: From New Latin phasis, from Ancient Greek φάσις (phásis, “an appearance”), from φαίνω (phaínō, “to cause to appear”); compare phantasm and see face.
Senses: glosses: A distinguishable part of a sequence or cycle occurring over time.
glosses: That which is exhibited to the eye; the appearance which anything manifests, especially any one among different and varying appearances of the same object.
examples: text: The problem has many phases.
glosses: Any appearance or aspect of an object of mental apprehension or view.
examples: text: the phases of the moon
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A particular appearance or state in a regularly recurring cycle of changes with respect to quantity of illumination or form, or the absence, of a body's illuminated disk. Illustrated in Wikipedia's article Lunar phase.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any one point or portion in a recurring series of changes, as in the changes of motion of one of the particles constituting a wave or vibration; one portion of a series of such changes, in distinction from a contrasted portion, as the portion on one side of a position of equilibrium, in contrast with that on the opposite side.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A component in a material system that is distinguished by chemical composition and/or physical state (solid, liquid or gas) and/or crystal structure. It is delineated from an adjoining phase by an abrupt change in one or more of those conditions.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: In certain organisms, one of two or more colour variations characteristic of the species, but independent of the ordinary seasonal and sexual differences, and often also of age.
examples: text: When Romania did manage to string together some phases midway through the first half, England's discipline held firm, although on the whole it was a less focused display from the Six Nations champions in the second half.
ref: 2011 September 24, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67-3 Romania”, in BBC Sport:
qualifier: rugby union
glosses: The period of play between consecutive breakdowns.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A haplotype.
topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: argument
glosses: The counterclockwise angle from the positive half of the real number line to the vector pointing to a complex number on an Argand diagram of the complex plane, which has the positive real line pointing right and the positive imaginary number line pointing up.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A distortion caused by a difference in the speed of propagation for different frequencies
topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: line conductor
glosses: In a polyphase electrical power system, one of the power-carrying conductors, or the alternating current carried by it.
Derived terms: acrophase
acute-phase protein
antiphase
aqueous phase
bathyphase
biophase
biphase
Chevrel phase
continuous phase
counterphase
delayed sleep phase disorder
dephase
diphase
disperse phase
dyke phase
ecophase
eigenphase
epiphase
ferriphase
FFLO phase
follicular phase
G1 phase
G2 phase
gaseous phase
geophase
gyrophase
heterophase
high-phase
homophase
hypophase
idiophase
in phase
intermetallic phase
interphase
intraphase
Laves phase
liquid phase
lunar phase
luteal phase
macrophase
mesophase
metaphase
microphase
misphase
mobile phase
monophase
moonphase
multiphase
nanophase
out of phase
penalty phase
phase angle
phase contrast microscope
phase contrast microscopy
phase diagram
phase down
phase factor
phase function
phase inverter
phaseless
phase-locked loop
phasematched
phasematching
phasemeter
phase modulation
phase modulator
phase of matter
phase of the moon
phase-out
phase plane
phase rule
phase separation
phaseshift
phase shifter
phase-shift keying
phase shift keying
phase space
phase tester
phase trafficked
phase trafficking
phase transfer catalysis
phase-transfer catalyst
phase transition
phase velocity
phasic
phasome
phason
phasor
phenophase
phirotope
photophase
prephase
prophase
protophase
pseudophase
quadriphase
quarter-phase
scotophase
single-phase
solid phase
S phase
split-phase power
stationary phase
stationary phase approximation
subphase
synphase
synthesis phase
talking phase
tectophase
three-phase
triphase
trophophase
two-phase
two-phase commit
uniphase
zerophase