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Phomopsis
Phomopsis (Sacc.) Bubák, asexual-morph genus of Diaporthaceae fungi, now a rejected synonym of Diaporthe; alpha and beta conidia in pycnidia; causes citrus melanose, soybean blight, grapevine cane spot, rare human mycosis.
Phon
The phon is a psychoacoustic unit of loudness level: the sound pressure level in decibels of a 1,000-Hz tone that listeners judge equally loud to a given sound.
Phonat
Phonat is the stage name of Michele Balduzzi, born 1985, an Italian electronic music producer who began in rural Tuscany and built his career in London.
Phonation
Phonation is the production of voiced sound by vibration of the vocal folds, muscular folds of mucous membrane in the larynx, as air from the lungs passes between them.
Phonautograph
The phonautograph is a device invented by French typographer Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, patented in 1857, that recorded airborne sound as tracings on soot but could not play it back.
Phone (phonetics)
Phone (phonetics): a distinct speech sound, the smallest IPA-transcribable unit of speech, language independent, distinct from the language-specific phoneme and its allophones, e.g. [p] vs [pʰ].
Phone Bhoot
Phone Bhoot (फोन भूत) is a 2022 Hindi horror-comedy film directed by Gurmmeet Singh for Excel Entertainment, starring Katrina Kaif as ghost Ragini with Ishaan Khatter and Siddhant Chaturvedi as ghostbusters; released 4 November 2022, it earned ₹11.04 crore nett in India.
Phone Booth (film)
Phone Booth is a 2002 American neo-noir crime thriller directed by Joel Schumacher, written by Larry Cohen, and starring Colin Farrell, Forest Whitaker, and Kiefer Sutherland.
Phone cloning
Phone cloning, also called telephone cloning, is copying a cellular phone's identity onto a second handset so calls are billed to the victim, widespread in the 1990s.
Phone connector (audio)
The phone connector, also known as the audio jack, is a cylindrical audio plug with tip, ring, and sleeve contacts, common in 6.35 mm and 3.5 mm sizes.
Phone hacking
Phone hacking, also known as voicemail hacking, is unauthorized access to a mobile phone, its accounts, or its communications, by software exploits, signaling abuse, or stolen credentials.
Phone patch
A phone patch is a device connecting a radio station to the telephone line, allowing conversation between the two; in amateur radio the autopatch lets repeater users place calls.
Phone sex
Phone sex: erotic conversation by telephone, intimate or commercial, including voice, video, and text forms. Covers 1980s dial-a-porn origins, 900-number billing, per-minute rates, operators, and recording law.
Phoneme
Phoneme: the smallest contrastive speech-sound unit of a language, tested by minimal pairs, realized as allophones; rooted in Baudouin de Courtenay and the Prague School, dropped as a level by generative phonology (SPE 1968), debated in psycholinguistics and speech technology.
Phoneme recognition
Phoneme recognition is the task of identifying phonemes, the distinct sound units of a language, in speech audio, forming the acoustic core of automatic speech recognition.
Phonen
Phonen was a king of the Blemmyes in Lower Nubia in the 5th century AD, known from a Greek papyrus letter found at Qasr Ibrim in 1976.
Phonen letter
The Phonen letter is a fifth-century Greek papyrus letter from Phonen, King of the Blemmyes, to Aburni, King of the Nobades, found at Qasr Ibrim in 1976.
PhonePe
PhonePe is an Indian digital payments and financial services company backed by Walmart, founded in 2015 by former Flipkart employees and leading India's UPI payment system.
Phonetic transcription
Phonetic transcription, also called IPA or broad/narrow transcription, is the written representation of speech sounds using phonetic symbols; it ranges from phonemic (slashes) to narrow allophonic (brackets) detail and underpins linguistics, speech science, and clinical speech assessment.
Phonetica
Phonetica (ISSN 0031-8388) is a peer-reviewed phonetic science journal founded in 1957 by Eberhard Zwirner, published by Karger until 2020 and by De Gruyter Mouton since 2021, now open access with editors Benjamin Tucker and Richard Wright.
Phonetics
Phonetics is the branch of linguistics studying speech sounds across production, acoustics, and perception; also known as experimental or general phonetics. It uses tools from the International Phonetic Alphabet to ultrasound and Praat, and differs from phonology, which studies sound systems in specific languages.
Phoneutria
Phoneutria (armed spiders, Brazilian wandering spiders, banana spiders; aranha armadeira) is a Neotropical Ctenidae spider genus of nine species with potent neurotoxic venom, mild in most human bites, treated with antivenom in severe cases.
Phoneutria nigriventer
Phoneutria nigriventer, the Brazilian armed spider (aranha-armadeira), is a large Ctenidae spider from Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Argentina whose venom contains over 40 ICK neurotoxic peptides targeting sodium, calcium, and potassium channels, studied as analgesic and neuroprotective drug leads.
Phoney War
Phoney War (Sitzkrieg, la drôle de guerre): the eight-month opening phase of WWII in Western Europe, 3 September 1939 to 10 May 1940, when Britain and France, at war with Germany, fought almost no land war in the West.
Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park and Hin Nam No National Park
Transboundary UNESCO World Heritage Site (2025) joining Phong Nha-Ke Bang (Vietnam) and Hin Nam No (Laos) national parks; 217,447 ha of 400-million-year-old karst with over 220 km of caves, Son Doong, and Annamite endemic species.
Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất massacre
The Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất massacre was the killing of about 69 to 74 villagers by South Korean marines in Quảng Nam Province, South Vietnam, on 12 February 1968.
Phong shading
Phong shading is a 3D computer graphics technique that interpolates surface normals across polygons and evaluates lighting per pixel, developed by Bui Tuong Phong at the University of Utah in 1975.
Phóng sự
Phóng sự, or reportage, is a Vietnamese literary genre at the crossing point of journalism and literature, flourishing from 1932 to 1945 with writers like Vũ Trọng Phụng and Ngô Tất Tố.
Phongsavadan
Phongsavadan (Lao: ພົງສາວະດານ) is the Lao and Thai term for a chronicle, a secular political record of a kingdom, principality, or town, distinct from religious chronicles.
Phongsawadan Lanchang
Phongsawadan Lanchang (ພງສາວະດານລ້ານຊ້າງ) is the court chronicle tradition of the Lan Xang kingdom, recounting its kings from founder Fa Ngum in 1353 to its partition into three kingdoms.