Phase vs Transformation - What's the difference?
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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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, year=2011
, date=Septembe 24
, author=Ben Dirs
, title=Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67-3 Romania
, work=BBC Sport
(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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The act of transforming or the state of being transformed.
A marked change in appearance or character, especially one for the better.
(mathematics) The replacement of the variables in an algebraic expression by their values in terms of another set of variables; a mapping of one space onto another or onto itself; a function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system.
(linguistics) A rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another; a sentence derived by such a rule.
(genetics) The alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA from another, especially if pathogenic.
(politics, South Africa) Ideologically driven government policy - becoming more conformant with socialist and African nationalist groupthink.
As nouns the difference between phase and transformation
is that phase is phase while transformation is .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.