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noun

an apparition or specter.

an appearance or illusion without material substance, as a dream image, mirage, or optical illusion.

a person or thing of merely illusory power, status, efficacy, etc.: the phantom of fear.

an illustration, part of which is given a transparent effect so as to permit representation of details otherwise hidden from view, as the inner workings of a mechanical device.

adjective

of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a phantom; illusory: a phantom sea serpent.

Electricity. noting or pertaining to a phantom circuit.

named, included, or recorded but nonexistent; fictitious: Payroll checks were made out and cashed for phantom employees.

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Also, fantom.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English fantosme < Middle French, Old French < Latin phantasma phantasm

Related forms

phan·tom·like, adjective

Synonyms
1, 2. See apparition. 5. imaginary.

Antonyms
5. real, material.

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Example Sentences

For the general public the distinction between a ghost and phantom is a murky one.

The result is a phantom service billed at the same inconspicuous amount every month to the credit card bill.

Russian foreign policy is still warped by the phantom pain of its lost empire.

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For the general public the distinction between a ghost and phantom is a murky one.

The result is a phantom service billed at the same inconspicuous amount every month to the credit card bill.

Russian foreign policy is still warped by the phantom pain of its lost empire.

For amputees suffering from phantom pain, a computer-generated cure might soon be at hand.

Distraction appears to be an effective technique to avoid the phantom noise of tinnitus.

Attempts at control are doomed to failure unless the phantom lawyer in every consulting room is exorcised for ever.

To me this sounds much more logical than being tickled by a phantom flailing faller.

He points out that plenty of research has been done into another kind of bodily illusion, phantom limbs.

And when the slap connected with his wet cheek, the loud clap stung my face in a phantom sort of way.

Politicians reacting to that inequality would be targeting a phantom.

Thus, the dreaded phantom of swamping by large retailers, is a figment of political imagination.

Worse, it anticipates and responds to phantom objections to my case that no one but the author would probably entertain.

Ninety-nine percent of the tinnitus sufferers said the treatment got rid of the disturbing phantom sound.

One synesthete may feel phantom objects of different shapes depending on what food he is tasting.

The story examines the phenomenon of phantom cell phone vibration and posits explanations ranging from behavioral.

They coexist as phantom species, slipping into temporary vacancies between prides of lions and packs of.

Fear is the phantom hand on the back of the neck and the sound of a door opening downstairs when no one is coming home.

Even when they are turned off, electronics often have phantom power use when plugged directly into the wall.

More importantly, a close examination of the sculpture shows that the phantom section of trunk never existed.

The concept has also helped some amputees alleviate pain in phantom limbs.

The central bank should also stop fighting the phantom of accelerating inflation.

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World English Dictionary

phantom (ˈfæntəm)

—n
1.	a. an apparition or spectre
	b. (as modifier): a phantom army marching through the sky
2.	the visible representation of something abstract, esp as appearing in a dream or hallucination: phantoms of evil haunted his sleep
3.	something apparently unpleasant or horrific that has no material form
4.	med another name for manikin

[C13: from Old French fantosme, from Latin phantasmaphantasm]

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Word Origin & History

phantom

c.1300, fantum "illusion, unreality," from O.Fr. fantesme (12c.), from V.L. *fantauma, from L. phantasma (see phantasm). The ph- restored in Eng. c.1590. Meaning "specter, spirit, ghost" is attested from 1382; that of "something having the form, but not the substance, of a real thing" is from 1707.

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Medical Dictionary

phantom phan·tom or fan·tom (fān'təm)
n.

Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality.
An image that appears only in the mind; an illusion.
A model, especially a transparent one, of the human body or of any of its parts.

adj.

Resembling, characteristic of, or being a phantom; illusive.
Fictitious; nonexistent.

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"O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself."

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