To account for each of the consecutive states presented by a thing that is modified and changes, or failing that it develops, we usually use the word phase to refer to it. "Our work project is in the last phase of production and we will surely launch it on the market next month. Human life is divided into various phases that have their own characteristics associated with the age they are going through..”
Consecutive stages that make up a complex and long process
A phase implies a specific, specific period of time, while this concept is usually used in our language in a general way and in different contexts and normally to explain processes that, as they have tremendous complexity and extension, it is necessary to divide them into phases or periods. to specify and understand them.
Application in contexts and disciplines that involve broad content or work
For example, history is a subject that is divided into several phases and each one has unique characteristics and, for example, it serves to account for different circumstances in fields such as politics, economics, social matters, among others, and also for identify the times, because in each one there have been situations that are precisely related to that time.
In other areas such as technology, as of our times by the way, the phases are understood and involve a specific technical procedure in relation to the use of an apparatus or device and also in regard to its constitution or creation.
And in areas such as journalism and scientific research, the phases acquire a special relevance because it implies the stages or parts in which a specific, complex work is carried out and that is why it requires a methodical and classified implementation.
Research processes in the aforementioned fields are always carried out in phases.
A journalistic investigation by case, part of an initial phase that is the reception of a complaint, is followed by the phase of gathering evidence and information, then their analysis to determine if the information is true or false, if it is Indeed, the final report preparation phase will continue, followed by, and in the final phase, be published by the corresponding media.
There are activities that can be done in a row, but there are others such as those mentioned in an investigation that are so complex, that yes or yes they require a division into phases of action steps to be able to specify them accordingly.
Astronomy: aspects of the moon
Meanwhile, in Astronomy, when referring to the word phase, we are talking about each of the aspects that the moon shows us, the popular phases of the moon, or the planets in question, according to the way in which they are illuminated by the sun.
When the moon revolves around the planet earth, it gives us different visual profiles depending on the position in which it is with respect to the sun, which is the one who illuminates it.
Moon phases
There are nine moon phases: new Moon (This phase is impossible to see with the naked eye because the moon is hidden as a result of the glare of the sun, it can only be seen if there is a total eclipse of the sun); visible new moon or crescent moon (This is the first appearance of the moon in the sky, it occurs around 30 hours from the position of the previous moon; it can be seen towards the west once the sun has set. Its shape resembles a horn; indicates the first day of each lunar month); crescent quarter (In view it appears as a circle split in half, that is, a semi circle); crescent gibbous moon (it acquires a convex appearance on both sides of its illuminated part); full moon (the moon is fully illuminated, it appears as a circle; it indicates the middle of the lunar month); waning gibbous moon (the luminous part begins to diminish taking into account the passage of the full moon, it presents a concave image); last quarter (simile to the crescent but in its opposite sense, it is plausible to observe it in the morning hours); waning crescent or waning crescent or old moon (It is like the visible new moon but in its opposite direction, it can only be observed at dawn, looking east, above dawn and before the sun rises) and black moon (It is the last phase in which the moon is visible from the earth, from here the mentioned cycle repeats).
Other uses in science
At the behest of the electricity, the phases, correspond to each of the circuits in an alternating current, being the case that presents a polyphase type current, that is, it has several phases instead of just one. "I have no light in the dining room, that phase has already burned.”
In the fields of Chemistry and Thermodynamics, the phase, will be each of the macroscopic portions in a chemical composition and those physical and uniform properties that make up a system.
