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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
phi

twenty-first letter of the Greek alphabet; see ph.

Wiktionary
phi

n. 1 Φ, the 21st letter of the Euclidean alphabet and Greek alphabet, usually romanized as "ph". 2 (context mathematics English) The golden ratio. 3 A visual illusion whereby a sequential pattern of lights produces a false sense of motion.(fact)

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phi

n. the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet

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Phi

Phi (uppercase Φ, lowercase or ; , pheî, ; modern , fi, ; English: ) is the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet. In Ancient Greek, it represented an aspirated voiceless bilabial plosive , which was the origin of its usual romanization as "ph". In modern Greek, it represents a voiceless labiodental fricative and is correspondingly romanized as "f". Its origin is uncertain but it may be that phi originated as the letter qoppa and initially represented the sound before shifting to Classical Greek . In traditional Greek numerals, phi has a value of 500 or . The Cyrillic letter Ef (Ф, ф) descends from phi.

Phi is also used as a symbol for the golden ratio and on other occasions in math and science. This use is separately encoded as the Unicode glyph ϕ. The modern Greek pronunciation of the letter is sometimes encountered in English (as ) when the letter is being used in this sense.

Phi (disambiguation)

Phi (uppercase Φ, lowercase φ, or math symbol ϕ) is the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.

Phi or PHI may also refer to:

Phi (KinKi Kids album)

Phi (stylized as Φ) is the tenth studio album of the Japanese duo KinKi Kids. It is the first album by KinKi Kids to have a Greek-lettered title, rather than the traditional Latin-lettered album title. The album was certified platinum by the RIAJ for 250,000 copies shipped to stores in Japan.

Phi (Truckfighters album)

Phi is the second studio album by Swedish rock band Truckfighters, released 5 October 2007 on Fuzzorama Records.

Usage examples of "phi".

No more crumby editors fresh from Harvard with Phi Beta Kappa keys hanging on their weskits.

Everett delivered an eloquent eulogy after his death, at the Phi Beta Kappa dinner at Harvard.

Penanggalan: Like the Phi Krasue of Thailand, the Penanggalan consists of a head and some entrails.

One of countless spirits from Thai mythology, the Phi Song Nang is basically identical to the Pontianak of Indonesia and Malaysia, it attacks young men mostly.

I decided later that it might be a lodge pin, or like a Phi Beta Kappa keythe Mother Thing was smart even for a Vegan and Joe was not far behind.

But then, just as he was leisurely defining the homomorphism, phi, the branch of the tree holding up his lightship suddenly snapped this is how it seemed and he was hurled into a rare and quite deadly torison space, of a kind that Lord Ricardo Lavi had once discovered on one of the first journeys toward the Vild.

The Psi Phi girls were known as the Trekkies, after the old sci-fi TV series, Star Trek.

Milagro District Forest Service Headquarters just for kicks, or just because of an intragovernmental feud either, but because they planned to phi the job on Joe Mondragon, thus railroading him into disgrace, jail, or worse, and ending once and for all the dangerous game people were playing up there.

I look around the room at the assorted Tau Phis, wondering which one is Doug.

But this time the fear and tears in his voice cause his fellow Tau Phis to turn around to look.

Uncle Gavin sat on the back of his neck practically, his legs crossed on the desk, chewing the bit of his corncob pipe and spinning and unspinning around his finger his watch chain weighted with the Phi Beta Kappa key he got at Harvard.

This dam, this conservancy district has the farmers down there on phis and needles.

Both men sported regalia: Phi Beta Kappa key for the lawyer, lodge pins dotting the cop’s lapels.

Of course, the state police's undercover wing was not dynamiting the Milagro District Forest Service Headquarters just for kicks, or just because of an intragovernmental feud either, but because they planned to phi the job on Joe Mondragon, thus railroading him into disgrace, jail, or worse, and ending once and for all the dangerous game people were playing up there.

Madame Phis reached over and took the cup from Gather-She stared into it for a long time, saying nothing, berine sat there feeling foolish.