## Meanings
1. One stage in a series of changes or in a process that happens over time.
2. The shape of the lit part of the moon as it changes through the month.
3. To do something gradually in separate stages.

## Examples
- The project is now entering its final phase.
- The full phase of the moon lit up the whole garden.
- The company plans to phase the new system in over six months.

## Derived Forms
- acrophase
- antiphase
- bathyphase
- biophase
- biphase
- counterphase
- dephase
- diphase
- ecophase
- eigenphase
- epiphase
- ferriphase

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *bʰeh₂-
- Root: phasis
- Root: φάσις

## Etymology
From New Latin phasis, from Ancient Greek φάσις (phásis, “an appearance”), from φαίνω (phaínō, “to cause to appear”); compare phantasm and see face.

## AI Etymology
Phase comes from New Latin phasis, from Ancient Greek φάσις (phásis, “an appearance”), from φαίνω (phaínō, “to cause to appear”); compare phantasm and see face. The historical chain includes *bʰeh₂- (Proto-Indo-European), phasis (la-new), φάσις (Ancient Greek). In present-day English it covers one stage in a series of changes or in a process that happens over time, the shape of the lit part of the moon as it changes through the month, and to do something gradually in separate stages. The wider family includes derived forms such as acrophase, antiphase, bathyphase, biophase, biphase.

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