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Industry | A method of describing the relative linear positions(with reference to the twist zones)of the two strands in a self-twist yarn. Source: European Union. (references) |
Post & Telecom | A process by which the formation of an image is brought point by point into the same time and position relationship as the scanned elements of the original scene. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The compositional technique phasing discovered by composer Steve Reich is that while the same part is played on two instruments, one instrumentalist keeps playing in steady tempo, while the other gradually moves ahead until it becomes back in phase (the rhythmic equivalent of cycling through the phase of two waveforms).
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Phasing."
Crosswords: PHASING |
| Specialty definitions using "PHASING": Developing countries ♦ electrical protection, enlarged access policy ♦ Land Ban, leapfrogging, LOGISTICS ENGINEER. (references) |
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Screenplays | We are phasing out apartheid, but these things take time. (Inside; writing credit: Bima Stagg) | |
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Health | Whenever possible, a woman should allow her doctor enough time to properly change medications, including phasing in the new medications and checking to determine when blood levels are stabilized, before she tries to become pregnant. (references) | |
Business | The UK action plan for the phasing out and destruction of PCBs mandated the retirement of all equipment containing substances with PCB concentrations over 50 mg/kg (PPM) by the end of 1999. This has been done by scheduled replacement, and in the case of electrical transformers, these have been refilled with non-PCB liquids. (references) | |
Economic History | Macau | Mainland competition, along with the phasing out of Multi-Fiber Arrangement (MFA) quotas, which provide a near guarantee of export markets, over the next few years, will eventually spell the end of Macau's low-end mass production of textiles, which comprise the bulk of the SAR's merchandise export earnings. (references) |
Sri Lanka | The Sri Lankan apparel industry registered a 23 percent growth in textiles and garment exports in 2000. Sri Lanka will have to face stiff global competition in the apparel market, as it will be competing with the major players in the industry for a share of the market, consequent to phasing out the Multi Fiber Agreement. (references) | |
Sri Lanka | Sri Lanka's textile and apparel industry faces increased competition from cheaper sources, preferential trading arrangements such as NAFTA and the U.S. Trade and Development Act of 2000, and phasing out of the Multi-Fibre Agreement in 2005. Thus it has become necessary to invest heavily in technology to face increased competition when quotas are fully phased out in 2005. Sri Lanka also lacks design capability, marketing and a strong raw material base. (references) | |
Political Economy | HUNGARY | Hungary is abiding by the terms of that agreement in phasing out subsidies, despite continued political pressure from domestic constituencies. (references) |
CHINA | For example, China has committed to gradually phasing out geographical restrictions on insurance and banking services. (references) | |
CHINA | The Chinese government, as part of its comprehensive reform of the economy, is committed to gradually phasing out remaining price controls. (references) | |
Trade | Indonesia | Through AFTA, ASEAN members are phasing in a Common Effective Preferential Tariff (CEPT) scheme, which will be completed for most traded goods in 2003. (references) |
Brazil | While the Government is now in the process of phasing these out and moving most products to the automatic license category, these requirements still present a barrier. (references) | |
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| "PHASING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 73.79% of the time. "PHASING" is used about 103 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 73.79% | 76 | 38,217 |
| Noun (singular) | 16.5% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 8.74% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.97% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 103 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "PHASING": phasing control ♦ phasing current ♦ phasing transformer. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "PHASING": phasing-in, phasing-out. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
phasing | 5 |
develop in modification phasing plan we will | 4 |
phasing single | 3 |
harness phasing | 2 |
antenna phasing | 2 |
green lantern phasing | 2 |
phasing stick | 2 |
gathering magic phasing | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "PHASING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 分阶段计'. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | phasing, indfasning, faseforskydning (offset). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | phaser, in fase brengen, faseverschuiving, fasescheiding. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vaihejako, vaiheistus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | phase (phase), rotophaseur, mise en phase, couplage d'électrodes. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Synchronisierung (sychronous idle, synchonization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Zεύγη ηλεκτροδίων, φάση (phase, stage), θέση σε φάση. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szinkronozás, fázisbahozás, fázisállítás, összehangolás (coordination, harmonization, synchronization, tracking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | rotofasatore, rateizzazione, messa in fase degli elettrodi, messa in fase (timing), descrizione delle fasi, accoppiamento degli elettrodi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | フェーリング反応 (a feint, face, facial, fader, fail, fail-safe, failure, fair, fair catch, fair copy, fair play, fair sex, fairway, fairy, fairy tale, fairyland, fake, fare, fear, feather, feather plane, feathercut, Fehling's reaction, phase, phaser, phasor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | フェイズィング . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 실행 (Enforcement, execution, Performing, Practicing, Prosecution). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | asingphay fase da zona de autotorção, ajuste de fase, ajustamento de fase dos eléctrodos. (various references) fazare. (various references) фазирование. (various references) ajuste de fase. (various references) fasning (synchronising, synchronizing), fashing (bevelling), elektrodkoppling. (various references) фазування. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"PHASING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fasing, khamsin, pahsien, phain, Phasenko, phasi, phasings, Upharsin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "PHASING" (pronounced fā"zing) |
| 4 | -ā" z i ng | amazing, appraising, blazing, gazing, glazing, grazing, hazing, phrasing, praising, raising, razing. |
| 3 | -z i ng | abusing, accusing, advertising, advising, aggrandizing, agonizing, amortizing, amusing, analyzing, antagonizing, apologizing, appeasing, appetizing, arising, arousing, authorizing, boozing, bowsing, browsing, bruising, brutalizing, bulldozing, buzzing, cannibalizing, capitalizing, carousing, categorizing, causing, centralizing, characterizing, chastising, choosing, cleansing, closing, colorizing, commercializing, composing, comprising, compromising, computerizing, confusing, criminalizing, criticizing, cruising, crystallizing, customizing, decentralizing, decomposing, decriminalizing, deemphasizing, defusing, dehumanizing, demilitarizing, democratizing, demonizing, demoralizing, denationalizing, desensitizing, destabilizing, devising, diffusing, digitizing, disclosing, disguising, disposing, downsizing, dozing, dramatizing, easing, economizing, editorializing, emphasizing, enclosing, energizing, enterprising, equalizing, espousing, excusing, exercising, exposing, fantasizing, federalizing, fertilizing, finalizing, foreclosing, formalizing, franchising, fraternizing, freezing, fusing, galvanizing, generalizing, glamorizing, harmonizing, hosing, housing, humanizing, hydrolyzing, idolizing, immobilizing, immortalizing, immunizing, imposing, improvising, industrializing, infusing, institutionalizing, ionizing, ironizing, itemizing, jeopardizing, legalizing, legitimizing, liberalizing, losing, marginalizing, materializing, maximizing, memorizing, merchandising, mesmerizing, minimizing, misusing, mobilizing, modernizing, monopolizing, moralizing, musing, nationalizing, neutralizing, normalizing, nosing, oozing, opposing, organizing, overgrazing, overusing, oxidizing, paralyzing, paraphrasing, patronizing, pausing, penalizing, personalizing, perusing, pleasing, polarizing, politicizing, popularizing, posing, predisposing, prioritizing, privatizing, proposing, proselytizing, publicizing, quizzing, rationalizing, realizing, reauthorizing, recapitalizing, recognizing, recusing, refusing, reimposing, reorganizing, reusing, revising, revitalizing, revolutionizing, rising, romanticizing, Rosing, sanitizing, satirizing, schmoozing, scrutinizing, securitizing, seizing, sensationalizing, sizing, sneezing, snoozing, socializing, specializing, squeezing, stabilizing, standardizing, sterilizing, stigmatizing, strategizing, subsidizing, summarizing, supervising, supposing, surprising, symbolizing, sympathizing, synthesizing, tantalizing, teasing, televising, temporizing, terrorizing, theorizing, tranquilizing, trivializing, unappetizing, uncompromising, unionizing, unsurprising, uprising, using, utilizing, vandalizing, verbalizing, victimizing, visualizing, warehousing, wheezing, whizzing, womanizing. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: hasping, pashing, shaping. | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-h-i-n-p-s" | |
-1 letter: ashing. | |
-2 letters: aphis, aping, apish, gains, gnash, hangs, nighs, nipas, pains, pangs, pians, pinas, pings, sangh, spahi, spang. | |
-3 letters: agin, ains, anis, gain, gaps, gash, gasp, ghis, gins, gips, hags, hang, haps, hasp, hins, hips, hisn, nags, naps, nigh, nipa, nips, pain, pang, pans, pash, phis, pian, pias, pigs, pina, ping, pins, pish. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-h-i-n-p-s" | |
+1 letter: harpings, paganish, phrasing, plashing, pshawing, sharping. | |
+2 letters: handgrips, nightcaps, phrasings, reshaping, scarphing, splashing. | |
+3 letters: aphorising, asphalting, champaigns, hairspring, handspring, happenings, headspring, hopsacking, misshaping, planishing, playthings, preshaping, prewashing, purchasing, rephrasing, shampooing, sharpening, springhead, sulphating, wampishing, whipsawing. | |
+4 letters: blaspheming, champignons, despatching, dispatching, empathising, emphasising, emphasizing, generalship, graphicness, hairsprings, handsprings, headsprings, hopsackings, lightplanes, managership, mispatching, misphrasing, monophagies, phantasying, pharyngitis, prehearings, prognathism, semaphoring, spaghettini, springheads. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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