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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PHI-PHENOMENON

Arbitrary use of Greek phi.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PHI-PHENOMENON

phi-phenomenon  [ˈfaɪfɪˌnɒmɪnən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PHI-PHENOMENON

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Phi-Phenomenon is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PHI-PHENOMENON MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of phi-phenomenon in the English dictionary

The definition of phi-phenomenon in the dictionary is the illusion that when two lights are rapidly turned on and off in succession something appears to move backwards and forwards between them while the lights stay stationary. Other definition of phi-phenomenon is a similar illusion in which one light appears to move smoothly backwards and forwards.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PHI-PHENOMENON


Canaan
ˈkeɪnən
Clendinnen
ˌklɛnˈdɪnən
Dunsinane
dʌnˈsɪnən
epiphenomenon
ˌɛpɪfɪˈnɒmɪnən
McKinnon
məˈkɪnən
noumenon
ˈnuːmɪnən
phaenomenon
fɪˈnɒmɪnən
phenomenon
fɪˈnɒmɪnən
prolegomenon
ˌprəʊlɛˈɡɒmɪnən
Saarinen
ˈsɑːrɪnən
superphenomenon
ˈsuːpərfɪˌnɒmɪnən
underlinen
ˈʌndəˌlɪnən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PHI-PHENOMENON

phi
Phi Beta Kappa
phi-phenomenona
phial
phialiform
Phidian
Phidias
Phidippides
phil.
Philadelphia
philadelphus
Philae
philander
philanderer
philandering
philanthrope
philanthropic
philanthropical
philanthropically
philanthropies

WORDS THAT END LIKE PHI-PHENOMENON

autokinetic phenomenon
figure-ground phenomenon
guenon
hapax legomenon
hebenon
Krishna Menon
Maintenon
Menon
paraleipomenon
paralipomenon
Parthenon
perispomenon
properispomenon
Simenon
tenon
theologoumenon
tusk tenon
xenon

Synonyms and antonyms of phi-phenomenon in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «phi-phenomenon» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PHI-PHENOMENON

Find out the translation of phi-phenomenon to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
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Translator English - Chinese

PHI-现象
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

phi - fenómeno
570 millions of speakers

English

phi-phenomenon
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Phi - घटना
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

فاي - الظاهرة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

фи - феномен
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

phi- fenômeno
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

Phi-প্রপঞ্চ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

phi - phénomène
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Fenomena phi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

phi- Phänomen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ファイ現象
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

피 현상
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Py-phenomenon
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phi - hiện tượng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஃபை-நிகழ்வு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

फाई-इस्तोनॅन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Phi-fenomen
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

phi - fenomeno
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Zjawisko phi -
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

фі - феномен
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

phi - fenomen
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

phi - φαινόμενο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

phi - verskynsel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

phi - fenomenet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

phi - fenomenet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of phi-phenomenon

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PHI-PHENOMENON»

The term «phi-phenomenon» is used very little and occupies the 155.390 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PHI-PHENOMENON» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about phi-phenomenon

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PHI-PHENOMENON»

Discover the use of phi-phenomenon in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to phi-phenomenon and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Theories of Consciousness: An Introduction
Box 5.4 • The Phi Phenomenon Apparently, it is a basic feature of our perceptual mechanisms to search for object continuity across changes in the visual scene. A striking example is the phi phenomenon. If a subject watches a blank screen, ...
William Seager, 2002
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Dictionary of Theories, Laws, and Concepts in Psychology
The German psychologist A. Korte (1915) developed a series of general statements/laws that describe the optimal conditions for apparent motion when demonstrating the phi phenomenon (i.e., perceived motion produced when two stationary ...
Jon E. Roeckelein, 1998
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Textbook of Ophthalmology
... retinal correspondence is present, the patient can tell the examiner when the movement of images (phi phenomenon) ceases thus indicating the angle of deviation. This can be particularly helpful where small vertical deviations are present.
Sunita Agarwal, Athiya Agarwal, Lucio Buratto, 2002
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Introduction to Psychology
The Phi Phenomenon. Have you seen news headlines spelled out in lights that rapidly wrap around a building? Have you seen an electronic scoreboard in a cricket or football stadium? When the home team scores, some scoreboards suggest ...
Sayed Jafar Mahmud, 2004
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The Animator's Eye: Composition and Design for Better Animation
Is it the phi phenomenon or the persistence of vision? Originally, the illusion of motion that movies excel at was thought to be the effect of the persistence of vision. In 1912, MaxWertheimer in his Experimental Studies on the Seeing of Motion ...
Francis Glebas, 2013
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Aesthetics of Film
The phi-phenomenon, which is of prime importance among these operations, involves our perception of apparent movement in certain instances when there is no actual motion. The phi-phenomenon may be illustrated by setting up a system of ...
Jacques Aumont, 1992
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Visual Perception
CHAPTER XI THE PHENOMENA OF APPARENT MOVEMENT 1. THE PHI PHENOMENON The configurations which we have already studied have in the main been purely spatial,1 though the temporal nature of the 'ground' may sometimes ...
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Persistence of Vision: Afterimage, Motion Perception, Phi ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken, 2010
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Phenomenology in Psychology and Psychiatry: A Historical ...
The result is that, given a certain speed in the successive occurrence of a and b, an additional phenomenon of movement is unmistakably seen, a phenomenon for which he now coined the term "Phi-phenomenon" (presumably after the Greek  ...
Herbert Spiegelberg, 1972
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Handbook of Cognitive Science: An Embodied Approach
... University of Regensburg, Regenburg, Germany 2Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain INTRODUCTION The “phi” phenomenon or the perception of “apparent motion” is closely related ...
Paco Calvo, Toni Gomila, 2008

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