phase

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Please come prepared with a roadmap for phase 2 trials.

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Quick take

any distinct time period in a sequence of events; "we are in a transitional stage in which many former ideas must be revised or rejected"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of phase gathered in one view.

noun

any distinct time period in a sequence of events; "we are in a transitional stage in which many former ideas must be revised or rejected"

noun

(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; "the reaction occurs in the liquid phase of the system"

noun

a particular point in the time of a cycle; measured from some arbitrary zero and expressed as an angle

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for phase.

noun

any distinct time period in a sequence of events; "we are in a transitional stage in which many former ideas must be revised or rejected"

noun

a particular point in the time of a cycle; measured from some arbitrary zero and expressed as an angle

noun

(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); "the full phase of the moon"

verb

arrange in phases or stages; "phase a withdrawal"

verb

adjust so as to be in a synchronized condition; "he phased the intake with the output of the machine"

Example sentences

Please come prepared with a roadmap for phase 2 trials.

It won a few crumbs in the copyright phase and got skunked on the patent phase.

They're at the "Ask-questions" phase, and the questions are always "What's the profit?

With nginx I was able to move on to the "get frustrated by Wordpress" phase of server setup much sooner!

From the article: \n"I don’t understand why double spending can’t be prevented in a simpler manner using two-phase commit.

A lawyer billing hourly would easily bill a six-figure sum in a typical class action case just to get through the class certification phase.

Integration phases where we tried to combine wildly incompatible components after 6 months of separate work.

As I understand it, they've built a version that doesn't require activation and takes a special serial number, so they can phase out the CS2 activation servers.

That's where the distinction between gas and liquid vanishes -- the viscosity, index of refraction, etc of one phase approach those of the other until differences vanish altogether at the critical point.

Full of horrid legacy systems that are built to flip-- specifically, to be "interesting" enough to merit a promotion for the original architect, who then moves on before it goes into maintenance phase and falls to pieces.

This is the much more detailed indexing of contracts, covenants, tracking down old shareholders, etc. Hopefully if you did the above point, this is made easier, since you're at least storing everything in one place- Then in the DD phase, there's going to be requests that you just can't prepare for, because they're out of left-field.