phase
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From New Latin phasis, from Ancient Greek φάσις (phásis, “an appearance”), from φαίνω (phaínō, “to cause to appear”); compare phantasm and see face.
Inflected forms:
form: phases
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: phases
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: phasing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: phased
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: phased
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A distinguishable part of a sequence or cycle occurring over time.
pos: noun
examples: It would have been a simple enough move to warn the firm, but Max Carrados's interest lay in the phase of crime rather than in forestalling it, and on that score he had little tangible as yet […]
gloss: That which is exhibited to the eye; the appearance which anything manifests, especially any one among different and varying appearances of the same object.
pos: noun
gloss: Any appearance or aspect of an object of mental apprehension or view.
pos: noun
examples: The problem has many phases.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: the phases of the moon
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: The period of play between consecutive breakdowns.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A haplotype.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A distortion caused by a difference in the speed of propagation for different frequencies
pos: noun
gloss: In a polyphase electrical power system, one of the power-carrying conductors, or the alternating current carried by it.
pos: noun
gloss: To begin—if construed with "in"—or to discontinue—if construed with out—(doing) something over a period of time (i.e. in phases).
pos: verb
examples: The use of the obsolete machines was gradually phased out as the new models were phased in.
gloss: To determine haplotypes in (data) when genotypes are known.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
gloss: To pass into or through a solid object.
pos: verb
examples: Anyone who has lost their way in cyberspace—realizing they have just phased into what they had previously categorized as 'solid' matter—will understand this example.
Archer took a deep breath and, steeling himself for the bizarre experience, carefully walked to the bulkhead and phased through.
Intangible or invisible objects in comic books are often drawn with a dotted line. When Kitty Pryde of the X-Men phases through objects, she's drawn that way, and Wonder Woman's invisible plan[sic] used to be drawn that way as well.
gloss: To use a phaser.
pos: verb
Derived words: 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
phaseable
rephase
unphased
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