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Meaning of phantom

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  phantom
      adj 1: something apparently sensed but having no physical
             reality; "seemed to hear faint phantom bells"; "the
             amputee's illusion of a phantom limb"
      n 1: a ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the
           apparition that confronted us" [syn: {apparition},
           {phantom}, {phantasm}, {phantasma}, {fantasm}, {specter},
           {spectre}]
      2: something existing in perception only; "a ghostly apparition
         at midnight" [syn: {apparition}, {phantom}, {phantasm},
         {phantasma}, {fantasm}, {shadow}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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