liquid phase

liquid phase (plural liquid phases)

1. (physics) One of the three fundamental structural phases of matter in which the thermal mobility of molecules or atoms is comparable with the cohesiveness, having them connected but fluid in a mass.

   Synonym: liquid

   Coordinate terms: gaseous phase, solid phase, plasma

• The word liquid phase tends to be used when the statistical mechanical or thermodynamic nature of matter is focused on rather than the matter itself.