phantom
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təm noun
1.
an apparition or specter.
2.
3.
a person or thing of merely illusory power, status, efficacy, etc.: the phantom of fear.
4.
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
5.
of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a phantom; illusory: a phantom sea serpent.
6.
Electricity. noting or pertaining to a phantom circuit.
7.
named, included, or recorded but nonexistent; fictitious: Payroll checks were made out and cashed for phantom employees.
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phantom (ˈfæntəm) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —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 phantasma | |
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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.
Resembling, characteristic of, or being a phantom; illusive.
Fictitious; nonexistent.
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Example sentences
For the general public the distinction between a ghost and phantom is a murky one.
Thus, the dreaded phantom of swamping by large retailers, is a figment of political imagination.
He points out that plenty of research has been done into another kind of bodily illusion, phantom limbs.
Distraction appears to be an effective technique to avoid the phantom noise of tinnitus.
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