phase

Forms

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.A particular appearance or state in a regularly recurring cycle of changes with respect to quantity of illumination or form, or the absence, of a body's illuminated disk. Illustrated in Wikipedia's article Lunar phase.

1.To determine haplotypes in (data) when genotypes are known.(informal)
2.To pass into or through a solid object.
- Archer took a deep breath and, steeling himself for the bizarre experience, carefully walked to the bulkhead and phased through.
- Anyone who has lost their way in cyberspace, realizing they have just phased into what they had previously categorized as 'solid' matter, will understand this example.
3.To use a phaser.
4.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.

Uncommon· #2296

From New Latin phasis

From Ancient Greek φάσις (phásis, “an appearance”)

From φαίνω (phaínō, “to cause to appear”); compare phantasm and see face.