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Phi vs Khi - What's the difference?

phi | khi |

As nouns the difference between phi and khi

is that phi is phi (greek letter) while khi is air, gas, vapor, steam.

phi

English

(wikipedia phi)

Noun

(en noun)
  • and [[Greek alphabet, modern Greek alphabet, usually romanized as "ph".
  • (mathematics) The golden ratio.
  • A visual illusion whereby a sequential pattern of lights produces a false sense of motion.(fact)

    • See also

    * (Greek letter) Previous: upsilon, Next: chi

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    References

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    khi

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (uppercase ), the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
  • * 1898 , Claude Reignier Conder, The Hittites and Their Language , W. Blackwood and Sons, page 249:
    • It is known, from the existence in his time1 of the Delphic tripod, that all these letters existed in 480 B.C. ; but on that monument the Khi'' and ''Psi differ from the forms used later.
  • * 1963 , Thomas Albert Sebeok, Current Trends in Linguistics , Mouton, page 404:
    • The letters upsilon'', ''phi'', ''khi'' , ''psi'', ''? were Greek additions
  • * 2006 , Jonathan M. Hall, A History of the Archaic Greek World , Blackwell Publishing, page 57:
    • Greek scripts display notable local characteristics — principally with regard to the shape of letters but also in the matter of the phonetic values attributed to signs such as san'', ''sigma'', ''khi'' , and ''psi .
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