Element vs Phase - What's the difference?
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One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
* (Benjamin Jowett) (1817-1893) ((Thucydides))
# (label) Any one of the simplest chemical substances that cannot be decomposed in a chemical reaction or by any chemical means and made up of atoms all having the same number of protons.
# One of the four basic building blocks of matter in theories of ancient philosophers and alchemists: water, earth, fire, and air.
# (label) A required aspect or component of a cause of action. A deed is regarded a violation of law only if each element can be proved.
# (label) One of the objects in a set.
A small part of the whole.
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A place or state of being that an individual or object is better suited towards.
The bread and wine taken at Holy Communion.
A group of people within a larger group having a particular common characteristic.
A short form of heating element, a component in electrical equipment, often in the form of a coil, having a high resistance, thereby generating heat when a current is passed through it.
(label) One of the conceptual objects in a markup language, usually represented in text by a matching pair of tags.
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A distinguishable part of a sequence or cycle occurring over time.
That which is exhibited to the eye; the appearance which anything manifests, especially any one among different and varying appearances of the same object.
Any appearance or aspect of an object of mental apprehension or view.
(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; as, the phases of the moon or planets''. Illustrated in .
(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.
(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.
(rugby union) The period of play between consecutive breakdowns.
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(genetics) A haplotype.
To begin—if construed with "in"—or to discontinue—if construed with out—(doing) something over a period of time (i.e. in phases).
(genetics, informal, transitive) To determine haplotypes in (data) when genotypes are known.
To pass into or through a solid object.
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As nouns the difference between element and phase
is that element is element (part of a whole) while phase is phase.element
English
(wikipedia element)Noun
(en noun)- The simplicity which is so large an element in a noble nature was laughed to scorn.
F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.}}
- The div element was introduced into HTML as a solution to the layout problem.
Synonyms
* (in chemistry) chemical element * (in set theory) memberDerived terms
* chemical element * data element * heating elementSee also
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* English terms derived from Etruscan ----phase
English
Etymology 1
From ; compare phantasm and see face.Noun
(en noun)- The problem has many phases .
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Verb
(phas)- The use of the obsolete machines was gradually phased''' out as the new models were '''phased in.