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n. - A homogenous, physically distinct portion of matter in a system not homogeneous; as, the three phases, ice, water, and aqueous vapor. A phase may be either a single chemical substance or a mixture, as of gases. ²
n. - In certain birds and mammals, one of two or more color variations characteristic of the species, but independent of the ordinary seasonal and sexual differences, and often also of age. Some of the herons which appear in white and colored phases, and certain squirrels which are sometimes uniformly blackish instead of the usual coloration, furnish examples. Color phases occur also in other animals, notably in butterflies. ²
n. - The relation at any instant of a periodically varying electric magnitude, as electro-motive force, a current, etc., to its initial value as expressed in factorial parts of the complete cycle. It is usually expressed in angular measure, the cycle beb four right angles, or 360?. Such periodic variations are generally well represented by sine curves; and phase relations are shown by the relative positions of the crests and hollows of such curves. Magnitudes which have the same phase are said to be in phase. ²
v. t. - To disturb the composure of; to disconcert; to nonplus. ²
n. - 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
n. - Any appearance or aspect of an object of mental apprehension or view; as, the problem has many phases. ²
n. - 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. ²
n. - 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. ²

The word "phase" uses 5 letters: A E H P S.

Direct anagrams of phase:
  ephas   heaps   shape

Words formed by adding one letter before or after phase (in bold), or to aehps in any order:
c -   chapes   cheaps   d -   hasped   pashed   phased   shaped   e -   spahee   g -   phages   h -   ephahs   l -   alephs   n -   shapen   r -   phrase   raphes   seraph   shaper   sherpa   s -   pashes   phases   shapes   t -   spathe  

Shorter words found within phase:
ae   ah   ape   apes   apse   as   ash   asp   eh   epha   es   ha   hae   haes   hap   haps   has   hasp   he   heap   hep   hes   pa   pah   pas   pase   pash   pe   pea   peas   peh   pehs   pes   sae   sap   sea   sh   sha   she   shea   spa   spae  

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