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  • adjective Having many phases.

Etymologies

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multi- +‎ phasic

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Examples

  • "Suppose we start by hypothesizing a multiphasic, dipolar organism and work from there."

    Lawnmower Season 2010

  • Sierra Clubbers were glaring at fresh-cut stumps and fence posts, EFF lawbies at the suits running the multiphasic sight/sound anti-media ECM blanket, and polibloggers and libertarians at the 30ft live feed of the inauguration speech.

    365 tomorrows » One Step Forward… : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2006

  • Sierra Clubbers were glaring at fresh-cut stumps and fence posts, EFF lawbies at the suits running the multiphasic sight/sound anti-media ECM blanket, and polibloggers and libertarians at the 30ft live feed of the inauguration speech.

    365 tomorrows » 2006 » December : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2006

  • Short version: Let's see if John Kerry can be as multiphasic as George W. Bush.

    March 2004 2004

  • She remembered because she told Paris to let them know that they needed to concentrate their re-modulated multiphasic sensor arrays in sweeps of the same area, the rationale being that two sets of eyes were better than one—especially when looking for a tiny submersible in about twenty-eight cubic kilometers of water.

    Distant Shores Edited by Marco Palmieri 2005

  • She remembered because she told Paris to let them know that they needed to concentrate their re-modulated multiphasic sensor arrays in sweeps of the same area, the rationale being that two sets of eyes were better than one—especially when looking for a tiny submersible in about twenty-eight cubic kilometers of water.

    Distant Shores Edited by Marco Palmieri 2005

  • She remembered because she told Paris to let them know that they needed to concentrate their re-modulated multiphasic sensor arrays in sweeps of the same area, the rationale being that two sets of eyes were better than one—especially when looking for a tiny submersible in about twenty-eight cubic kilometers of water.

    Distant Shores Edited by Marco Palmieri 2005

  • Overwhelmed with multiphasic transmissions and often under fire, you had to decide in a heartbeat which messages were most important.

    CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004

  • Mostly what I did was what I always did, monitored every layer of multiphasic transmission that we passed through on our way from Here to There.

    CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004

  • Overwhelmed with multiphasic transmissions and often under fire, you had to decide in a heartbeat which messages were most important.

    CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004

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