Definitions for phase

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phase phase

Spelling: [feyz]

IPA: /feɪz/

Phase is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in phase (aehps).

Definitions for phase

noun

1. any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
2. a stage in a process of change or development:
3. a side, aspect, or point of view:
4. a state of synchronous operation:
5. Astronomy. the particular appearance presented by the moon or a planet at a given time. one of the recurring appearances or states of the moon or a planet in respect to the form, or the absence, of its illuminated disk:
6. Zoology. color phase.
7. Chemistry. a mechanically separate, homogeneous part of a heterogeneous system:
8. Physics. a particular stage or point of advancement in a cycle; the fractional part of the period through which the time has advanced, measured from some arbitrary origin often expressed as an angle (phase angle) the entire period being taken as 360°.

Verb phrases

1. phase down, to reduce by gradual stages.
2. phase in, to put or come into use gradually; incorporate by degrees:
3. phase out, to bring or come to an end gradually; ease out of service:

verb (used with object)

1. to schedule or order so as to be available when or as needed.
2. to put in phase; synchronize:

Origin of phase

1805-15; (noun) back formation from phases, plural of phasis

Examples for phase

I didn't want to go into this phase of it, but it may explain what, with your permission, I am about to do.

The enormous wealth of the country will soon adjust that phase of the situation.

That consequence may be corrected in this phase of our being, or it may be carried over into the next.

The families announced along with it that they had entered a “phase of silence” surrounding the details of the new deal.

That we pass out of this phase of being as we came into it, for Growth.

And it was also during the phase of the higher autobiography.

Instead, astronomers hope to observe planet formation in all its stages, each marking a phase in star and planet birth.

There is nothing about the earth-life to make it the only phase of effort and probation.

If you followed such things at the time, perhaps the phrase “phase II report” will snap a synapse or two.

We have entered the “anything goes” phase of religious exemptions.