different between phase vs coacervation

English

Etymology 1

From New Latin phasis, from Ancient Greek ????? (phásis, “an appearance”), from ????? (pháein, “to shine”); compare phantasm and see face.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: f?z, IPA^(key): /fe?z/
• Rhymes: -e?z
• Hyphenation: phase
• Homophone: faze

Noun

phase (plural phases)

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

   The problem has many phases.

4. (astronomy) 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 disk. Illustrated in Wikipedia's article Lunar phase.

5. (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.
6. (chemistry) 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.
7. (zoology) 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.
8. (rugby union) The period of play between consecutive breakdowns.
9. (genetics) A haplotype.
10. (mathematics) The arctangent of the quotient formed by dividing the imaginary part of a complex number by the real part.

    Synonym: argument

11. (music) A distortion caused by a difference in the speed of propagation for different frequencies
12. (electrical engineering) In a polyphase electrical power system, one of the power-carrying conductors, or the alternating current carried by it.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• phase on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

phase (third-person singular simple present phases, present participle phasing, simple past and past participle phased)

1. (with in or out) To begin—if construed with "in"—or to discontinue—if construed with out—(doing) something over a period of time (i.e. in phases).

   The use of the obsolete machines was gradually phased out as the new models were phased in.

2. Obsolete form of faze.
3. (genetics, informal, transitive) To determine haplotypes in (data) when genotypes are known.
4. To pass into or through a solid object.

Usage notes

See notes at faze.

Hyponyms

• phase in
• phase out

Derived terms

• phaseable
• unphased

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

• Phase

Proper noun

phase

1. (obsolete) Passover

References

Anagrams

• HEPAs, Heaps, ephas, heaps, shape

Dutch

Noun

phase f (plural phasen or phases, diminutive phasetje n)

1. Obsolete spelling of fase.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faz/

Noun

phase f (plural phases)

1. phase

Derived terms

• phase de poule

Further reading

• “phase” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Alternative forms

• Phase

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (phasék, “Passover”), from a Semitic language.

Noun

phase n (indeclinable)

1. Passover
2. the Passover sacrifice; Paschal Lamb

Synonyms

• pascha

Descendants

• Old English: phase

References

• Phase in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Portuguese

Noun

phase f (plural phases)

1. Obsolete spelling of fase (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).

English

Noun

coacervation (countable and uncountable, plural coacervations)

1. The separation of a colloidal system into two liquid phases, one of which (the coacervate) is more concentrated in the colloid component.