What is "phenix"

Phenix \Phe"nix\, n.; pl. Phenixes. [L. phoenix, Gr. foi^nix.]

1. (Gr. Myth.) A bird fabled to exist single, to be consumed by fire by its own act, and to rise again from its ashes. Hence, an emblem of immortality.

2. (Astron.) A southern constellation.

3. A marvelous person or thing. [R.]
   --Latimer.

n. (archaic spelling of phoenix English)

Phénix (French for phoenix) was a small-scale (gross 264/net 233 MW) prototype fast breeder reactor, located at the Marcoule nuclear site, near Orange, France. It was a pool-type liquid-metal fast breeder reactor cooled with liquid sodium. It generated 590 MW of thermal power, and had a breeding ratio of 1.12 (12% more plutonium produced than consumed), but normally had to be stopped for refueling operations every 2 months. Phénix continued operating after the closure of the subsequent full-scale prototype Superphénix in 1997. After 2004, its main use was investigation of transmutation of nuclear waste while also generating some electricity. Phénix was shut down in 2009.

Construction of Phénix began in November 1968. The first connection to the French national electricity grid was in December 1973.

The ASTRID (Advanced Sodium Technical Reactor for Industrial Demonstration) reactor, with a power generating capacity of 600 MW, is likely to succeed Phénix in its role as a French-built sodium-cooled fast reactor and is also part of the international Generation IV reactor programme. A decision on construction will be made in 2019.

Phenix is a French comic book character created by Luciano Bernasconi for French publisher Editions Lug in 1978.

Phenix is the secret identity of Chicago socialite Patricia Hope. As the masked, leather-clad, bike-riding Phenix, she fights drug dealers, terrorists and other kinds of urban menaces.

When she was in college, Patricia Hope, the daughter of a billionaire couple, was raped by an assailant still unknown today. She slipped into a deep coma that lasted nine months, and emerged like a phenix from its ashes miraculously transformed, with a body and mind optimized to superhuman levels. After inheriting her parents' fortune and charitable foundation, Patricia became a leading Chicago socialite by day, and the black-clad, bike-riding crime fighter known as Phenix by night. Phenix occasionally helps Father Brown's local church; after breaking up with young Dr. Bob Carter, Patricia now shares her life with Dr. Douglas Sullivan, head of the E.R. at Saint Justin's Hospital. Phenix also teams up on a semi-regular basis with Sibilla.

Eight episodes of Phenix were originally published in the digest-sized magazine Special-Rodeo Nos. 74-78. The series was then discontinued.

The character returned in 2002 in Fantask No. 5, before migrating to Yuma vol. 2, No. 1, in a series of new adventures, written by Jean-Marc Lofficier and drawn by various artists, including Frédéric Grivaud, Mariano De La Torre and Juan Roncagliolo Berger. The series stopped when Yuma was cancelled with No. 10 in 2003.

Phenix and Sibilla teamed up with Witchblade in Blood Oath, a one-shot published by Top Cow Productions in August, 2004.

Phenix is now part of Hexagon Comics which has published a collection of her adventures translated into English.

The Phenix watch trademark was created in 1873 in Porrentruy, Switzerland.

The Phenix watch was entirely manufactured and assembled on site. This enabled the watchmaker to ensure uniformly high quality and craftsmanship for each watch. In part as a result of this attention to detail, the brand won a number of industry awards, particularly for its Firebird model.

In the 1960s, Phenix became divided into three brands, with the other two brands named Thomen and Vulcain. The latter was relaunched in 2004.

Phenix is an album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley recorded in 1975 at the Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, California, featuring performances by Adderley's Quintet with Nat Adderley, Michael Wolff, Walter Booker and Roy McCurdy with guest percussionist Airto Moreira and sessions featuring past Quintet members George Duke, Sam Jones, and Louis Hayes.

Phenix may refer to:

• Phenix Aviation Phenix, a Spanish autogyro design
• Phenix City, Alabama
• Phenix (comics), a French comic book character
• Phenix, Indiana, an unincorporated community in Wells County
• Phenix (watches)
• Phenix, Virginia
• PHENIX, a high energy nuclear interactions experiment held at Brookhaven National Laboratory
• Phénix, French prototype fast breeder reactor in the Marcoule nuclear site
• Phenix (album) a 1975 album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley
• Phenix, a mythical bird
• Superphénix, nuclear power station on the Rhône River at Creys-Mépieu in France