Sentence examples for phi from inspiring English sources
"phi" is an accepted and usable word in written English
It is used to refer to the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet, and it is also used in mathematics to represent the Golden Ratio (1.618). For example, you could write, "The architect drew up plans based on the principles of phi, achieving a balanced design."
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Φ, the 21st letter of the Euclidean and modern Greek alphabet, usually romanized as "ph".
Mr Atalay, it seems, once visited the pyramids as a young boy and found phi there.
But "Math and the Mona Lisa" is not the first book to list recurrences of phi in various places.
Enduring love A man of many tints Creating happy endings ReprintsThe book makes much of the "golden ratio", or phi, a number which does indeed recur in art and nature.
Fibonacci, whose real name was Leonardo of Pisa, was among the first to introduce Arabic numerals to Europe, in 1202.No doubt, the nature of phi is an interesting subject, and it features in Mr Brown's twisty plot.
The loveliest architecture uses phi, the constant he derived from the proportions of a pentagram (the discussion on phi is a rare moment of truth in the otherwise nonsensical "Da Vinci Code").The third, darker, thread is that paradise means purging the world of unbelievers, sin, filth and so forth.
This is the phi phenomenon.
Dr Venter's was the real McCoy: when he put the viral DNA into host cells they started to spit out new viruses just as self-destructively as cells infected with the natural Phi-X174.The idea behind the efforts to make an artificial bacterium was, in essence, to treat a large synthetic genome as a giant version of Phi-X174 and use it to hijack a cell which had had all its DNA removed.
Speed things up (sometimes called magni-phi), and it ceases to look discrete, instead presenting as a continuously moving thing, which enhances the effect.
The result, a virus called Phi-X174, was able to infect bacterial cells and then reproduce inside them exactly like a natural virus.The European Commission began hearings on whether Microsoft has abused the dominant position of its PC operating systems.
So Dr Venter changed tack, and decided to go with a lightly modified version of the entire M. genitalium genome.Around the same time, in 2003, he synthesised the genome of a virus, Phi-X174, which has a mere 11 genes.
While that game's going on, channel hoppers with very thorough cable packages can switch between it and Columbus vs Philadelphia (Sat 6pm, Columbus Crew Stadium, CSN-PHI/TWCSC-OH), to see two sides who've made positive starts to the year.
