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phan·tom
I. noun
also fan·tom \ˈfantəm, ˈfaan-\
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English fantosme, fantome, fantom from Middle French fantosme, from Latin phantasma — more at phantasm
1. obsolete : mere appearance or seeming : illusion
2.
a. : something (as a specter or an optical illusion) that is apparent to the sight or other sense but has no actual or substantial existence : apparition, figment
< is not all that I see a lie — a deceitful phantom — George Borrow >
b. : something elusive or visionary : will-o'-the-wisp
< the glittering phantoms of wealth and fashion, the whole pageantry of the metropolis, were dissolved by the suicide — M.D.Geismar >
c. : an object of continual dread or abhorrence : bogey, bugbear
< the phantom of a Holy War has been exorcised — A.L.Guérard >
< the phantoms of disease and want >
3. : one that is something in appearance but not in reality : a mere show : shadow
< only a phantom of a king >
< maintain but the phantom of authority >
4. : a representation or shadowing forth of something abstract, ideal, or incorporeal
< she was a phantom of delight — William Wordsworth >
5.
a. : a manikin or a model of the body or one of its parts
b. : a body of material resembling a body part in mass, composition, and dimensions and used to measure absorption or radiations
6. : phantom circuit
7. : ghost 14
8. : a halftone or drawing having certain details shown as though transparent or translucent so as to indicate various especially internal parts of a machine in their working position
II. adjective
Etymology: Middle English fantom, from fantom, n.
1. : being a phantom : of the nature of or suggesting a phantom
< headless blacksmiths, phantom black dogs, haunted houses — American Guide Series: Maryland >
< a phantom ship >
a. : illusory
< phantom pain >
< phantom pregnancy >
< amputee's illusion of a phantom organ — Psychological Abstracts >
< conjuring up phantom dangers of feudal aristocracy — V.L.Parrington >
— compare phantom limb
b. : operating or placed so as to seem or to be invisible : unembodied, elusive
< proved again that they are a phantom army — W.O.Douglas >
< his phantom crew miles away on the ground — Time >
< phantom voices >
c. : fictitious, dummy
< phantom voters >
< a phantom regime >
2. : of or relating to a phantom circuit
< phantom wire >
3. : showing certain details as though transparent or translucent so as to indicate various especially internal parts of a machine in their working position
< phantom drawing >
< phantom halftone >
< phantom view >
— compare exploded |