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<p><a href="page.php?w=Image%3AOscillating_sine_wave.gif">thumb</a>In <a href="page.php?w=physics">physics</a> and <a href="page.php?w=mathematics">mathematics</a>, the <b>phase</b> (symbol ? or ?) of a <a href="page.php?w=Wave_%28physics%29">wave</a> or other <a href="page.php?w=periodic_function">periodic function</a>  of some <a href="page.php?w=real_number">real</a> variable  (such as time) is an <a href="page.php?w=angle">angle</a>-like quantity representing the fraction of the cycle covered up to .  It is expressed in such a <a href="page.php?w=scale_%28ratio%29">scale</a></p><p>
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