Phase and faze are homophones (words pronounced alike but different in meaning, derivation, or spelling) that may easily be confused. Despite the similarity in pronunciation, these words bear little semantic resemblance to one another.
I'm sure he'll get over it, it's just a phase. She seems to be going through some sort of religious phase. An initial phase of research has produced some exciting results. We're now entering the final phase of the project. The business is going through a rather depressing phase at the moment.
The phase difference is then the angle between the two hands, measured clockwise. The phase difference is particularly important when two signals are added together by a physical process, such as two periodic sound waves emitted by two sources and recorded together by a microphone.
PHASE definition: any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind. See examples of phase used in a sentence.
Phase, in thermodynamics, chemically and physically uniform or homogeneous quantity of matter that can be separated mechanically from a nonhomogeneous mixture and that may consist of a single substance or a mixture of substances. The three fundamental phases of matter are solid, liquid, and gas.
A phase is a particular period of time, like someone whose "teenage rebellion" phase lasts well into her thirties. The word phase can mean a stage in a person’s development or a step in a process, such as “the next phase in the Interstate 57 project.”
Noun phase (plural phases) A distinguishable part of a sequence or cycle occurring over time.