PHASE

Any distinct time period in a sequence of events

Example: "We are in a transitional stage in which many former ideas must be revised or rejected"

• stage  6

• period  9
• period of time
• time period

• diakinesis  15
• diplotene  12
• leptotene  11
• pachytene  19
• • phase of cell division
  • zygotene  21
  • anal phase
  • anal stage
  • genital phase
  • genital stage
  • latency period
  • latency phase
  • latency stage
  • oral phase
  • oral stage
  • phallic phase
  • phallic stage
  • chapter  14
  • incubation  14
  • fertile period
  • fertile phase
  • menstrual phase
  • musth  10
  • luteal phase
  • secretory phase
  • generation  11
  • apogee  9
  • culmination  15
  • seedtime  11
  • safe period
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(physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary

Example: "The reaction occurs in the liquid phase of the system"

• form  9

• state  5
• state of matter

• dispersed particles
• dispersed phase
• dispersing medium
• dispersing phase
• • dispersion medium
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A particular point in the time of a cycle; measured from some arbitrary zero and expressed as an angle

• phase angle

(astronomy) the particular appearance of a body's state of illumination (especially one of the recurring shapes of the part of earth's moon that is illuminated by the sun)

Example: "The full phase of the moon"

• appearance  16
• visual aspect

• phase of the moon