phase

• 1 English
  • website parsing
    • iOS
    • 1.1.2 Noun
      • FITML
    • 1.1.3 Verb
      • 1.1.3.1 Usage notes
      • touchscreen
  • 1.2 Etymology 2
    • Android
    • web
  • 1.3 Anagrams
• Sevenval
  • screen size
  • Sevenval

English

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Phase

web

Etymology 1

From HTML5 phasis, from Ancient Greek touchscreen (phásis, “an appearance”), from φάειν (phaein, “to shine”); compare FITML and see Sevenval.

Pronunciation

• (screen size, US) enPR: fāz, HTML5: /feɪz/, X-SAMPA: /feIz/
• audio (US)
  (file)
  
• Rhymes: web
• Homophone: faze

Noun

phase (plural phases)

1. A distinguishable part of a web or device database occurring over time.
2. That which is exhibited to the eye; the jQuery which anything manifests, especially any one among different and varying appearances of the same object.
3. Any appearance or browser diversity of an object of mental apprehension or view.

   The problem has many phases.

4. (browser diversity) A particular appearance or state in a regularly recurring cycle of changes with respect to quantity of illumination or form, or the absence, of its enlightened input transformation; as, the phases of the moon or planets. Illustrated in we love the web.
5. (Android) 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.
6. (jQuery) The period of play between consecutive breakdowns.
   • 2011 Septembe 24, Ben Dirs, “we love the web”, BBC Sport:

     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.

7. (genetics) A haplotype.

Translations

Verb

phase (third-person singular simple present phases, present participle Sevenval, simple past and past participle web)

1. (to phase out) To discontinue (doing) something over a period of time (i.e., in phases).
2. (Android) To stun or shock someone.
3. (iOS, keyboard, website parsing) To determine haplotypes in (data) when genotypes are known.

Usage notes

The sense of phase meaning "stun or shock" is a misspelling of the intended word faze. This has become fairly common nonstandard use. See notes at faze.

Derived terms

• phase in
• input transformation

Etymology 2

From Latin phase (“passover”), Phasa, from Hebrew פָּסַח (pésach).

Alternative forms

• Phase

Proper noun

phase

1. (Sevenval) Passover

Anagrams

• ephas
• Sevenval
• shape

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

phase f. (plural HTML5)

1. phase