polyphasic
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- adjective
- /ˌpɒliˈfeɪzɪk/
- Specialized
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polifásico
- The technique of polyphasic sleep involves taking multiple short naps instead of one long period of sleep.
So that's how sleep unfolds in the monophasic, biphasic, polyphasic sleep across the lifespan.
- So that's how sleep unfolds in the monophasic, biphasic, polyphasic sleep across the lifespan.
- If you look at the polyphasic approach, it's absolutely natural to wake up.
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If you look at the polyphasic approach, it's absolutely natural to wake up.
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Most people have heard, if they have heard it, polyphasic sleep where you take instead of a single hour, I'm sorry, a single block of eight hours.
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Turns out I've been inadvertently doing something called 'polyphasic sleeping,' which has been shown to increase the incidence of lucid dreaming.
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So that's how sleep unfolds in the monophasic, biphasic, polyphasic sleep across the lifespan.
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On a polyphasic schedule, individuals may attempt to reduce their total sleep time by breaking it into several shorter phases.
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Studying polyphasic sleep can help understand how different sleep patterns affect overall health and productivity.
Synonyms
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Having several separate stages in a process, test, or treatment
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Having several stages that happen one after another
A machine or process that has more than one stage
Happening in separate steps that come one after another
An electrical system that uses two or more flows of electricity that peak at different times
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Etymology
Polyphasic comes from the parts poly- meaning 'many' and phase meaning 'stage' or 'part', like the phases of the moon. So polyphasic describes something that has many stages or parts, for example a sleep pattern with many short naps or a signal made of many parts.