|an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an
exceptional example or instance.| |an arrangement of five
objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner
and one in the middle.| |1.||a. an apparition or spectre| |b.
(as modifier): a phantom army marching through the sky| |2.||the
visible representation of something abstract, esp as appearing
in a dream or hallucination: phantoms of evil haunted his sleep|
|3.||something apparently unpleasant or horrific that has no
material form| |4.||med another name for manikin| |[C13: from
Old French fantosme, from Latin phantasma| phantom phan·tom or
fan·tom (fān'təm) Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed,
but having no physical reality. An image that appears only in
the mind; an illusion. A model, especially a transparent one, of
the human body or of any of its parts. Resembling,
characteristic of, or being a phantom; illusive.