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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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d8Phasis \[d8]Pha"sis\, n.; pl. {Phases}. [NL.] See {Phase}. --Creech. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Phase \Phase\, n.; pl. {Phases}. [NL. phasis, Gr. [?], fr. [?] to make to appear: cf. F. phase. See {Phenomenon}, {Phantom}, and {Emphasis}.] 1. That which is exhibited to the eye; the appearance which anything manifests, especially any one among different and varying appearances of the same object. 2. Any appearance or aspect of an object of mental apprehension or view; as, the problem has many phases. 3. (Astron.) A particular appearance or state in a regularly recurring cycle of changes with respect to quantity of illumination or form of enlightened disk; as, the phases of the moon or planets. See Illust. under {Moon}. 4. (Physics) 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. | |
