polyphasic
Americanadjective
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having more than two phases.
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habitually doing more than one thing at a time.
a polyphasic personality.
Etymology
Origin of polyphasic
Example Sentences
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Whether polyphasic sleep exists among modern humans is also up for debate.
From National Geographic • Jan. 4, 2024
"Ubiquitin units that are too far apart or too close together don't favor condensate formation as much. Jeremy Schmit used theoretical modeling and polyphasic linkage concepts to generalize these experimental observations."
From Science Daily • Nov. 13, 2023
Yes, there is a jape about polyphasic sleep.
From The Verge • Feb. 26, 2020
From an infant's polyphasic snippets of slumber to the “hyper-associative problem-solving benefits” of REM dreaming, Walker's investigation is anything but soporific.
From Nature • Oct. 10, 2017
They found that both were polyphasic sleepers, meaning they napped in several short bouts over the course of a night.
From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2017
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