phi
Americannoun
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the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet (Φ, φ).
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the consonant sound represented by this letter.
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This is what Wang and his colleagues have proposed in a recent preprint study: the movement of the phi mesons themselves creates a strong force field whose minuscule fluctuations are affecting mesons’ spin polarization.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 2, 2023
Alpha, beta, upsilon, phi / Tuition here is too damn high!
From Washington Times ● Dec. 26, 2019
Having seen the alpha and omega of the series, I'm eager to see the gamma, delta, epsilon and phi, or whichever intermediate Greek letters you want to represent those four other episodes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2019
In modern Greek, phi sounds like “f,” but it is usually transliterated from ancient Greek as “ph.”
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 7, 2019
The letters phi, psi, sigma, zeta, which require a great deal of wind, are employed in the imitation of such notions as shivering, seething, shaking, and in general of what is windy.
From Cratylus by Jowett, Benjamin
Literally full of sigmas, phis, omegas and other symbols.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 7, 2020
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