initial phase
collocation in Englishmeaningsofinitialandphase
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initial
adjective[before noun]
uk/ɪˈnɪʃ.əl/us/ɪˈnɪʃ.əl/
of or at ...
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phase
noun[C]
uk/feɪz/us/feɪz/
any stage in a series of events or in a process ...
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(Definition ofinitialandphasefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Only theinitialphaseis given for each partial.
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Theinitialphasef0 is guessed at the input plane.
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In theinitialphaseof the process, the least-loaded class contains no mutations.
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The system drifted from aninitialphaseof large surpluses to increasing deficits and ultimate crisis.
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The preterite denotes the occurrence in the past of theinitialphaseof the state.
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Theinitialphaseof inactivity was followed by active support for multilateral liberalization.
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These are the main cause of theinitialphasefluctuation seen in figure 14.
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The lower the upper bound, the longer is theinitialphase.
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Secondary endpoints of the combination phase were as for theinitialphaseof monotherapy.
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They do not represent theinitialphaseof a local invention.
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Total harmonization takes place at the mean of countries' positions in theinitialphase.
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Efficient collisional absorption occurs only in theinitialphaseof the pulse.
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In other words, the production function exhibits aninitialphaseof increasing returns, and a second phase with decreasing returns.
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After theinitialphaseof 20 sec, distractors (circular patterns of 4 degrees diameter) appeared within approximately every seventh fixation.
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The experimentally obtained shock wave behaviors atinitialphaseare almost the same with the numerical results.
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Perhaps this implementation lag corresponds roughly to theinitialphaseof positive capital income taxes in the model.
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In aninitialphase, the method generalizes the set of all lexicon entries, by abstracting from word-specific information.
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For their own par t, the prospects seldom refuse directly in thisinitialphase, owing to their observance of positiveness.
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Theinitialphaseof the survey was conducted during a period of three months in the autumn of 1995.
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We start with the assumption that after aninitialphaseof diversity, regulatory competition precedes regulatory cooperation.
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For the triphasic waveform theinitialphaseis positive followed by a negative phase and lastly, a positive phase.
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Theinitialphaseof sequence database expansion was slow due to the tedious and slow nature of protein sequencing.
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Very rarely we measured interspike intervals of 4 ms during theinitialphaseof the visual stimulation.
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After thisinitialphase, verification is done on a weekly basis, with an action level of 3 mm for correction.
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Theinitialphaseis now complete.
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