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• phase sth out — UK US phase sth out Phrasal Verb with phase({{}}/feɪz/ verb [T, often passive] ► to remove or stop using something gradually or in stages: »The airline is planning to phase out the aircraft at the end of this year …   Financial and business terms

• ˌphase sth ˈout — phrasal verb to gradually stop using something Over the following three years, the use of the drug will be phased out.[/ex] …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English

• phase something out — WITHDRAW GRADUALLY, discontinue, stop using, run down, wind down. → phase * * * ˌphase sthˈout derived to stop using sth gradually in stages over a period of time • Subsidies to farmers will be phased out by next year. Main entry: ↑phasederived …   Useful english dictionary

• phase — 1 noun (C) 1 a part of a process of development or growth: a transitional phase before democratic elections are held compare stage 1 (1) 2 in phase/out of phase (with) BrE working together in a way that produces the right effect, or not working… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• phase*/ — [feɪz] noun [C] I a particular period of time during the development of something The first phase of the project will be completed by 2010.[/ex] Tim went through a phase of being aggressive at school.[/ex] a depressing phase in our history[/ex]… …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English

• phase — phase1 W2 [feız] n [Date: 1800 1900; : Modern Latin; Origin: phasis, from Greek, appearance of a star, phase of the moon , from phanein to show, appear ] 1.) one of the stages of a process of development or change ▪ a new drug that is in the… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• in out of phase (with something) — in phase/out of phase (with sth) idiom (BrE) working/not working together in the right way • The traffic lights were out of phase. Main entry: ↑phaseidiom …   Useful english dictionary

• in phase of phase (with something) — in phase/out of phase (with sth) idiom (BrE) working/not working together in the right way • The traffic lights were out of phase. Main entry: ↑phaseidiom …   Useful english dictionary

• life — noun 1 living things ADJECTIVE ▪ intelligent ▪ Is there intelligent life on other planets? ▪ animal, bird, human, insect, plant …   Collocations dictionary

• expansion — Phase of the business cycle as it climbs from a trough toward a peak. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * * expansion ex‧pan‧sion [ɪkˈspænʆn] noun [uncountable] 1. when something increases or is increased in size, amount, or number: • An… …   Financial and business terms

• Maximum entropy thermodynamics — In physics, maximum entropy thermodynamics (colloquially, MaxEnt thermodynamics) views equilibrium thermodynamics and statistical mechanics as inference processes. More specifically, MaxEnt applies inference techniques rooted in Shannon… …   Wikipedia