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🔬 With many stages 🧪 With many phases
multiphasic

multiphasic

1 8.7
Having several separate stages in a process, test, or treatment
  • adjective
  • /ˌmʌltiˈfeɪzɪk/
  • Specialized
translation icon : multipásico
  • Her research on climate change follows a multiphasic model, examining various environmental impacts over time.
  • Multiphasic Personality Inventory
  • Multiphasic Personality
  • Minnesota Multiphasic

Examples

  • To understand the issue thoroughly, we need a multiphasic analysis that considers different factors.

  • Eighty-eight students answered the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2).

    Academic text (2013)

  • A multiphasic picture is usually divided into panels.

    Academic text (2018)

  • The substance appears to have intelligent multiphasic properties, able to shift states at will.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • The crafting of the future workforce is multiphasic.

    Academic text (2015)

  • This scale correlates positively with the K and L scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.

    Academic text (2003)

  • The social worker's responsibilities as a member of the team included taking a complete psychosocial history and coordinating a multiphasic assessment of participants' current physical and psychosocial functioning.

    Academic text (1994)

  • At that time, the MCSD was an attractive alternative to the social desirability scales derived from items on the well-known clinical instrument, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (Dahlstrom & Walsh, 1960).

    Academic text (2000)

  • The project involves a multiphasic approach, with each stage building on the previous one.

Synonyms

polyphasic
vsmultiphasic
  • Specialized
4 8.8

Having several stages or parts

uses plain wording for multiple phases without technical tone
stepwise
vsmultiphasic
2 6.0

Happens in small steps rather than all at once

is about having phases but not necessarily in strict sequence
multistep
vsmultiphasic
1 4.4

Having several stages that happen one after another

is broader, covering phases or stages not only linear steps
multistage
vsmultiphasic
5.5

A machine or process that has more than one stage

emphasizes multiple phases generally not just the label of stages
multileveled
vsmultiphasic
3.8

Having several levels, like a building or an organization

refers to separate phases or steps in time or process

Compounds

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
  • Specialized
9.0

A long set of questions psychologists use to learn about a person's personality and mental health

How Many Stages

multiphasic
  • Specialized
1 8.7
one-step
5 4.1

Surface Forms

multiphasic positive

Morphology

multiphasic = phasic (semi-transparent) = multi + phase + ic

The word is built regularly from 'phasic' with the prefix 'multi-', but the sense is specialized in process and systems discourse.

Etymology

Multiphasic comes from multi- meaning 'many' and phase meaning 'a stage or part'. So a multiphasic process or test happens in several different stages or steps.