PHI

Phi

Phi, pronounced or sometimes in English, and in modern Greek, is the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet. In modern Greek, it represents, a voiceless labiodental fricative. In Ancient Greek, it represented, an aspirated voiceless bilabial plosive . In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 500 or 500,000 . The Cyrillic letter Ef arose from Φ.

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phi

Noun

  1. The twenty-first letter of the Classical and Modern Greek, the twenty-second letter of Old and Ancient.
  2. A visual illusion caused by lights turning on and off in a sequential pattern that implies motion.
  3. The symbol for the golden ratio.


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