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phantom

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phantom [′fan·təm]
(geology)
A bed or member that is absent from a specific stratigraphic section but is usually present in a characteristic position in a sequence of similar geologic age.
(nucleonics)
A volume of material approximating as closely as possible the density and effective atomic number of living tissue, used in biological experiments involving radiation.
(petrology)
ghost


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With its Phantom chased for evermore, By a crowd that seize it not, Through a circle that ever returneth in To the self-same spot, And much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot.
Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
The vast white headless phantom floats further and further from the ship, and every rod that it so floats, what seem square roods of sharks and cubic roods of fowls, augment the murderous din.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
 
 
 
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