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phase change
(redirected from phase transition)

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A transition from one state to another, such as from solid to liquid or liquid to gas. It also refers to a molecular transition from an amorphous state (unstructured) to a crystalline state (structured). See phase change disk and phase change memory. See also phase modulation.
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