Phillipsn.1
/ˈfɪlɪps/, U.S. /ˈfɪlᵻps/ A proprietary name for: (a) a screw having a slot in the form of a recessed, equal-armed cross; (b) a screwdriver having a corresponding shape. Usually attributive, esp. in Phillips head, Phillips screw, Phillips screwdriver.
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Whitworth1877
acme thread1908
self-tapping1912
Phillips1935
1935 Iron Age 7 Nov. 42/3 American Screw Co., Providence, R.I., announces a line of case-hardened sheet metal screws featuring a new ‘Phillips’ recessed, self~centering head in place of the conventional screw-slot.
1956 A. P. Morgan Woodworking Tools ii. 37 Phillips head screws require a Phillips screwdriver.
1962 E. Ambler Light of Day viii. 172 He had used an ordinary screwdriver on the Phillips heads.
1972 Pract. Motorist Oct. 209/3 For Philips screws, you may be able to get by with one screwdriver but it's better to buy a large and a small one.
1994 Knoxville (Tennessee) News-Sentinel (Nexis) 18 Dec. e12 Whenever I need a screwdriver, I pick up the type I don't need at that particular time. I need a Phillips and find the regular kind.
2004 60 Minutes (CBS Transcript) (Nexis) 7 Mar. All screws should be Phillips. They should stop making screws with just one slot.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
Phillipsn.2
/ˈfɪlɪps/, U.S. /ˈfɪlᵻps/ Economics.
attributive and in the genitive. Designating a formula expressing a supposed inverse relationship between the level of unemployment and the rate of inflation (strictly, the rate of change of money wages), or a graphical representation of such a relationship. Chiefly in Phillips curve.
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indifference curve1881
indifference map1934
Phillips curve1959
1959 Economica 26 304 This adjustment would entail a shift of the Phillips curve to the right.
1969 Times 5 May (Wall St. Suppl.) p. i/4 The Phillips curve was mentioned frequently during last year's presidential campaign, usually with the assumption that a Nixon Administration would tolerate a higher level of unemployment and thereby bring about a lower rate of inflation than would the opposition party.
1974 Times 23 Mar. 13/1 Many have come to doubt whether any such choice—between unemployment and inflation as expressed in the traditional Phillips's curve—exists at all.
1992 D. Laidler in A. Vercelli & N. Dimitri Macroeconomics xvi. 455 It is widely believed that the disappearance of the Phillips trade-off in the 1960s and 1970s is a clear-cut example of just this phenomenon at work.
2000 New Scientist 9 Dec. 47/2 His next idea—the Phillips Curve—brought him a professorship and an international reputation as a brilliant economist.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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