To account for each of the consecutive states that presents a thing that is modified and changed, or failing that it develops, we usually use the word phase to refer to it. “Our work project is in the last phase of production and we will surely launch it to the market next month. Human life is divided into various phases that have their own characteristics associated with the age that is experienced..”
Consecutive stages that make up a complex and long process
A phase implies a certain, concrete period of time, while this concept is usually used in our language in a general way and in various contexts and normally to explain processes that, as they have tremendous complexity and extension, it is necessary to divide them into phases or periods. to specify and understand them.
Application in contexts and disciplines that involve extensive content or work
For example, history is a subject that is divided into several phases and each one has unique characteristics and each case serves to account for different circumstances in fields such as politics, economics, and social issues, among others, and also to identify the times, because in each one there have been situations that are precisely related to that time.
In other areas such as technology, so modern by the way, the phases are understood and imply a certain technical procedure in relation to the use of a device or device and also with regard to its constitution or creation.
And in areas such as journalism and scientific research, the phases acquire special relevance because they imply the stages or parts in which specific, complex work is carried out and for this reason it requires a methodical and classified execution.
Research processes in the mentioned fields are always carried out in phases.
A journalistic investigation per case, starts from an initial phase that is the receipt of a complaint, followed by the phase of collecting evidence and information, then analyzing them to determine if the information is true or false, if it is True, the phase of the elaboration of the final report will continue, for immediately afterwards, and in the final phase, it will be published by the corresponding means of communication.
There are activities that can be done continuously, but there are others such as those mentioned in an investigation that are so complex that, yes or yes, they require a division into phases of action steps to be able to specify them accordingly.
Astronomy: aspects of the moon
meanwhile, in Astronomywhen referring to the word phase, it will be talking about each of the aspects that the moon shows us, the popular phases of the moon, or the planets in question, according to the way in which they are illuminated by the sun.
When the moon revolves around the planet earth, it gives us different visual profiles depending on the position in which it is with respect to the sun, which is the one that illuminates it.
Moon phases
There are nine lunar phases: new Moon (this phase is impossible to see with the naked eye because the moon is hidden due to the glare of the sun, it can only be seen if there is a total eclipse of the sun); visible new moon or crescent moon (This is the first appearance of the moon in the sky, it occurs around 30 hours from the position of the previous moon; it can be seen to the west once the sun has set. Its shape resembles a horn; indicates the first day of each lunar month); crescent quarter (to the eye it appears as a circle divided in half, that is, a semi-circle); crescent gibbous moon (acquires a convex appearance on both sides of its illuminated part); full moon (the moon is fully illuminated, it appears to the eye as a circle; it indicates the middle of the lunar month); waning gibbous moon (the luminous part begins to diminish taking into account the passage of the full moon, it presents a concave image); last quarter (similar to the crescent quarter but in its opposite sense, it is plausible to observe it in the morning hours); waning or waxing waning moon or old moon (it is like the visible new moon but in its opposite direction, it can only be seen at dawn, looking east, above dawn and before the sun rises) and black moon (It is the last phase in which the moon is visible from the earth, from here the mentioned cycle is repeated).
Other uses in science
At the behest of the electricitythe phases, correspond to each one of the circuits in an alternating current, being the case that presents a polyphase type current, that is, it has several phases instead of just one. “I have no light in the dining room, that phase has already burned.”
In the fields of Chemistry and Thermodynamicsthe phase, will be each of the macroscopic portions in a chemical composition and those physical and uniform properties that make up a system.
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